[ale] non-technical Linux question

[Lightner, Jeff]

I did work on Datapoint before UNIX and it had what it called DOS and Databus.   Before that I'd worked on IBM System 34 which was later upgraded to System 36.    Before all that I was doing electronic cash registers then before that electric ones that had a hand crank to use when the power was out not to mention the big ledger books you hand wrote your entries into for accounting.

The great thing about having started out with manual systems like those was later after all the namby pamby folks learned only computers I was still able to function when the computers were down and they weren't.

I did do some work on AS400 a few years back but wasn't happy about it.






-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of JD
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 9:39 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] non-technical Linux question

On 02/17/2014 08:44 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> I had been working with various UNIX systems starting in the mid 80s
> (I'd been doing DOS before that and did Novell Netware)

I used DOS on an IBM-360 (mainframe). Wrote ASM programs.  Nothing like either PC-DOS or MS-DOS, as you can imagine.  Clearly older by 15+ yrs than those johnny-come-lately OSes for intel chips. ;)

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