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I start of with hard coding in binary on punch card in the mid 70's in highschool
In the military I took side college coarses in RPG I back in late 70's
After the military in the early 80's I went on to RPG II.
In the mid 80's I went on to three forms of basic, 6502 assembly on the Merlin assembler on an Apple IIe. Different college.
Then switch to the HP3000 with Image Database, 9845B Forms Utility integrated together with C.O.B.O.L., and a really SOB of a time doing it.
While messing with the above, I took coarses on the Apple IIe in dbase I and turbo pascal I.
After graduation I took a very short job doing medical billing software in C.O.B.O.L II can't remember which mini main frame.
After loosing that job, I built my first computer an AT clone and learn Turbo Pascal III, Borland pascal, Turbo assembly and Pascal for windows. Also expanded my knowledge of database programming with Ms Access I. And Ashton dbase IV.
After my dad died in 1990 I attended Comdex and got interested in video programming using mostly 80386 assembly on a newly bought 80486 clone.
That was short lived. In the mid 90's I took another job building and repairing computers while volunteering as a assistance system analyst on a rented free BSD system. Also built a 586 computer (cyrix chip) for my own use.
There I learned HTML, SSI, Java scripting, perl, php and SQL while learning to operate and monitor all the servers, ftp, SMPT and Apache web server.
When mom died in 2001 I lost it. And pretty much dropped programming! Exception with excel spreadsheets.
I do keep my eye on things programming wise yet I have been pretty much inactive since 2001.
In the military I took side college coarses in RPG I back in late 70's
After the military in the early 80's I went on to RPG II.
In the mid 80's I went on to three forms of basic, 6502 assembly on the Merlin assembler on an Apple IIe. Different college.
Then switch to the HP3000 with Image Database, 9845B Forms Utility integrated together with C.O.B.O.L., and a really SOB of a time doing it.
While messing with the above, I took coarses on the Apple IIe in dbase I and turbo pascal I.
After graduation I took a very short job doing medical billing software in C.O.B.O.L II can't remember which mini main frame.
After loosing that job, I built my first computer an AT clone and learn Turbo Pascal III, Borland pascal, Turbo assembly and Pascal for windows. Also expanded my knowledge of database programming with Ms Access I. And Ashton dbase IV.
After my dad died in 1990 I attended Comdex and got interested in video programming using mostly 80386 assembly on a newly bought 80486 clone.
That was short lived. In the mid 90's I took another job building and repairing computers while volunteering as a assistance system analyst on a rented free BSD system. Also built a 586 computer (cyrix chip) for my own use.
There I learned HTML, SSI, Java scripting, perl, php and SQL while learning to operate and monitor all the servers, ftp, SMPT and Apache web server.
When mom died in 2001 I lost it. And pretty much dropped programming! Exception with excel spreadsheets.
I do keep my eye on things programming wise yet I have been pretty much inactive since 2001.
BridgeOvertroubledWaters · 61-69, M
@DeWayfarer Yes , I heard of RPG in the 80s.
The only RPGs I knew of were the dangerous military kind !!
The only RPGs I knew of were the dangerous military kind !!
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@BridgeOvertroubledWaters 🤣!!!
Report program generator! A laughable language, if you can call it that.
Report program generator! A laughable language, if you can call it that.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@DeWayfarer Thank you for the BA.