[Tfug] [ot] introduce myself

[Matthew Eskes]

Wire wrapping == means wrapping wire around the relays in old systems.

And what does it matter if he migrated over to COBOL? When you think about
it, when he says big iron, he's implying that he did that as well as
admining them. Sounds like  you spewed troll bait, Erich and I fell for it.

matt

-----Original Message-----
From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of
erich
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:20 AM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: Re: [Tfug] [ot] introduce myself

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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