Were you there?
Does the number 7090, 1401, 1625, or 360 cause tears of nostalgia to trickle down your cheeks? Have you ever hung around the machine room at 2:00AM waiting for debug time on a 4K mainframe? Did you ever wish IBM had come out with an 84 column card? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you're one of us!
Data Processing pioneers. That's right, we did it! We wrote all that cryptic machine code that ignored the century digits for lack of enough core memory. Now all of a sudden they can't find all the instances of it in that free verse that passes for programing today. Serves them right for blindly porting from system to system.
I'm proud of what we accomplished with those constipated little machines. We repaired punch cards with scotch tape, counted CPU cycles on our fingers, and endangered our hearing around those noisy chain printers. Dues paid, we are now the elder statespeople of information processing.
Flaunt it, my friends! Rub their noses in it.
