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Hello, my name is David and i am spanish. Thanks everybody

JRO here

My, what a friendly and responsive lot!

I know I'm instantly going to embarrass myself...well here goes.

I've been involved with computers since 1968. I was the first Systems Operator for IBM in their datacenter where we ran a QuickTran (Fortran) and QuickText (a word processing program) that allowed users to run off our 360 mainframe from their remote locations. I worked 3rd shift while completing college.

Since then I worked primarily as a liaison between normal users and the tech community: as a UI designer; QA grunt and eventually manager; and technical illustrator specializing in charts, maps, and diagrams. I also worked as a journalist (Systems Editor) and, in its nascent years writer and reviewer for the Macintosh, which I eventually abandoned when Apple started selling lozenge shaped CPUs, and abandoned their expertly designed GUI for ribbons and the like. I was glad to get involved with Windows when I saw they were taking the Macintosh design (menus, submenus, and the like) and extending it to.......................................to, make a long story short Windows then copied the Mac again and went the Ribbons route.

I appreciate all the wonderful events that made computers so exciting. I curse the advent of OneDrive, which has so disrupted and destroyed my computer experience (and files!!!!) that I am still, months later suffering its aftereffects.

Now I just feel OLD.

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I just submitted a (fairly long) quick reply to this thread. Why can I not see it?

I just submitted a (fairly long) quick reply to this thread. Why can I not see it? Oops,,,there it is.

I learned how to program on an IBM360 at University of Michigan that was in a room operated by 3 to 4 people. I typed the program commands on punch cards on a special "typewriter" and then submitted the stack of cards to one of the operators. I'd wait, usually 3 hours for the print out of results of the run. I'd then have to go through the cards and correct those that created a bad command line, take the stack of cards and resubmit them for another try.

I believe that 360 was one of the most powerful computers at the time. I was still using a slide rule for my engineering classes.

Welcome to you both.