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My dad learned IBM assembler and COBOL from the IRS in 1968. When I, at age 10 in 1970, asked him what he did at his job, he handed me an IBM Principles of Oper
by masterponomo 15y ago
My dad learned IBM assembler and COBOL from the IRS in 1968. When I, at age 10 in 1970, asked him what he did at his job, he handed me an IBM Principles of Operation (POOP) manual, an IBM green card, and a stack of punched cards with a program encoded thereupon. "Mostly Lost" is OK for today's yute, but I'm sure glad the magical mystery fairy tale school of learning was not in operation when I cut my programming teeth.