BACK TO WORK AFTER 30 YEARS By Alleyoop (Read 489 times)

[Alleyoop]

The shortest video you've ever seen so pay attention... A woman goes back to work after thirty years.
Watch carefully, the video is only 5 seconds long, but you'll get it.
If you're younger than 40 years old, you probably won't understand it.

[cyborg]

LOL that is too funny Alley!!!!!!

[Guitarman]

LOL.. I never heard the DING

[tvnacman]

that was good for a chuckle .

John

[jct842]

I actually took typing in High school. Was only a few boys in those classes then, all girls was the norm. Underwoods.

[richardv]

I was one of those boys in typing, office practice and IBM card punch in late '60s. My mother thought it would a good skill to know. I liked the girls.

[Guitarman]

I used to read the hexidecimal cards like english. LOL Talk about being born Geek. LOL

Still to this day when I hear of an underwood, I remember that we used to call them Underwood Deviled Typers. LOL

[Alleyoop]

Yep, remember the DUO's, the 1401, the sorter that you had to wire up yourself(HAHA). Remember putting a marker on top of the cards in the case that held a very important program so if the case was dropped you could put the cards back in sequence pretty fast. Time Inc where I worked for 5 years used 360-20s just for printing(HAHA). They had hundreds of disk drives and tape drives on the computer floor from one end to the other. They had people just to mount tapes and disks on roller skates to zip down the aisles mounting tapes and disks. They always had the best that IBM put, so we would always be working with the newest of everything. The programming school the VA sent me to used 360-20s well the first job within Time Inc used 360-30s so the programming was a little different. I had to learn really quick the differences in writing programs for the 30s (HAHA). What a career and experience getting into programming and computers from being a Printer.
Alleyoop

[Guitarman]

It was insane. My Dad was Director of CiMeg at NCR back in the day and I hung out in the lab after school. The Techs couldn't throw me out because of who I was so they put me to work. I remember re-programming a system by taking a magnetic probe and touching the individual memory spools. Then we got one that did it for us and all we had to do then was re-wire the thing. LOL Oh man, the memories....


Yeah, I'm a lot older than I look.

[glavey]

This all makes me feel... incredibly young. My first experience with a computer (I didn't even know it was a computer at the time) was a commodore 64 that would only work for 10 minutes at a time.

After that, it was a Packard Bell with a 200MHz Pentium proc. and windows 95.

[cyborg]

Glavy,,, 2 words,,,, magnetic tape

[Bashan]

That was funny! I was dragged kicking and screaming into computers mainly because of looking for tech help on Scoot Dawg and then starting Scooter Doc with Jack. Then my wife had to have a virus removed in 2010 and we were charged $150.00. I said shoot I can do that and took some classes. We studied the history of the card and spool machines and it was amazing what they could do. Now it's all moving so fast, DDR4 RAM, 4TB HDDs, solid state drives coming into play. It's a hard field to keep up with, I pine for simpler times. Now get off of my damn lawn you snapper whipper!

[richardv]

When I was in high school, '64-'68, our school had more typewriters than any other in the state and that included colleges. The first to have the new IBM card punchers. Oconto Falls, WI had a population of 2,900.
My major was Industrial Arts and Office Practice as a secondary.