He got me to thinking back, and I started on my first Reality client
system in about Jan or Feb of 1977. I guess I've just completed 30
years here.

It has been a very interesting and rewarding career, for sure...

Bill Millikin

Bill Millikin wrote:

This year is big 25 for me. I just shaved my greying beard cuz I was
starting to feel way too old. And yet it's funny how people in this
industry regard me one of the youngsters. Nah, I just look the part.
LOL

T

On Feb 7, 4:55 pm, Tony Gravagno
<g6q3x9lu53... (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com.invalid> wrote:
January 8, 1982 was day one for me in this industry. I started with
Prime Information and have worked with every "flavor"
thereafter...except Ultimate. I'm not sure how I missed that one!

It's been a fun ride!

-Bruce H

"mvdbman" <mvdbman (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

What a bunch of newbies.

<September 20, 1976>
Microdata, Information, Ultimate, just enough ADDS to get Ultimate to
give us a much better price, PICK XT/AT, GA, Universe, a little
Unidata and MVBase.

Rog

<Quoting Tony's prior post>
"And yet it's funny how people in this industry regard me one of the
youngsters."
</Quote>

Um, me too I guess...a 25 year noob but apparently a noob nonetheless.
*sigh* However, I got into Pick/MV/Whatever-you-want-to-call-what-we-
do as fast as I could!

-Bruce H

On Feb 13, 9:12 pm, "rog" <rglenospam... (AT) optonospamline (DOT) net> wrote:

On Feb 7, 2:56 pm, Bill Millikin <wjmilliki... (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> wrote:
Bill:

Where is the link to the remark about Pete, Schellenbach I presume?

Henry

1984... on Adds Mentor migrating to Reality, then back to mvBASE and
now jBASE.

I feel like a Pick "virgin" compared to the others here....<G>

Simon

On Feb 14, 3:03 pm, hbkeult... (AT) earthlink (DOT) net wrote:

On Feb 14, 4:26 pm, "Simon" <s... (AT) aphroditeuk (DOT) com> wrote:
This June will be 30 years since I wrote my first production code
(yes, from my crib), but it was COBOL and just about that long since I
sent my first e-mail. It was on a P300, staying on that box to the
mailbox of another user, then later from a P300 to a P400 -- e-mail on
a network about that long ago! I wonder just how old e-mail is, but I
suspect I was among the first n girls in the U.S. to give it a try
(when I replaced a number with "n" the sentence no longer said
anything, but notice how that didn't make me remove it ;-).

I didn't touch Pick until 1989 and then only in a supporting role
(mgmt). I have written queries (e.g. INFORM & UniQuery), and have
read and even debugged DataBASIC code (letting someone else know what
to fix), but I have never written a DataBASIC program. That combined
with my relative innocence grants me the right to trump you as the
real Pick "virgin" around here ;-)

Happy Valentines Day to all --dawn

"dawn" <dawnwolthuis (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

operator and I did "message switching" to send each other jokes. What's
changed?

Mark

"dawn" wrote:

Hell, most of us were writing COBOL or FORTRAN from the crib 30 years
ago. No fair going back to pre-Pick history, that's just asking
people to admit their age.

Fraid not sister. I was on the PLATO network around that time too
('77/'78). Email was old hat by then, and ladies weren't excluded by
any means, in the US or other parts of the world:
http://www.thinkofit.com/plato/dwplato.htm
(no, the dw doesn't stand for Dawn Wolthuis.)

On PLATO we had "Notes" for group mail like Usenet and personal mail
like email. That was an ancestor of Lotus Notes BTW. Around that
time some of us were writing email programs in BASIC or FORTRAN on
370's (v/90?) and PDP/11. Of course not to the crap POP3/SMTP specs.

Speaking of which, it's ironic is that even today email clients and
servers are written to basically the same RFC spec that was written
back around then (82?). Next time someone calls a Pick guy a
dinosaur, just point them to their email. Talk about primitive crap
software...

Still remembering PLATO fondly,
T