[Tfug] [ot] introduce myself

[erich]

Well,
      I know what "wire-wrapping" means, but I was a little stumped
with "big-iron".  I think you mean IBM mainframes, but you only mention
Univac.
      Did you migrate your (COBOL?) applications to PC's ? My guess
is that there's quite a bit of competition for this sort of software.
Have you ever looked at GnuCash?

                                                                                          
Erich


tmh at cfl.rr.com wrote:

>Just joined the group; I'll introduce myself. My first name is Tim
>and I live in central Florida near Orlando. My vocation is as a
>business application programmer which I started in '66 by
>wire-wrapping boards for Univac 1004/1005s. I spent the next 14 years
>designing/writing big-iron financial applications: demand desposit,
>time deposit, installment loan. Since '81 I've specialized in
>designing/writing micro-iron vertical order processing applications
>for distribution businesses: automotive aftermarket,
>awards & presentations, pottery & landscaping.
>
>My hardware is limited to Intel/AMD powered computers on which I use
>FreeBSD and the Debian distribution of Linux.
>
>My current project is a web enabled horizontal order processing
>application using Apache and Linux/FreeBSD which you can test drive,
>if you wish, at my showroom at www.sababeach.net.
>
>I am retired excepting continued support for my order processing 
>application. I join ix user groups as an enjoyable way to keep up with 
>the state of ix software.
>
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