Started my career as an IBM SE for the mainframe in the early 2000s. They were desperate to bring young people into the mainframe world to carry the baton. My p

Started my career as an IBM SE for the mainframe in the early 2000s. They were desperate to bring young people into the mainframe world to carry the baton. My peers were all guys with kids my age or well older and most of them carried punch cards around in their breast pocket to take notes. At that time they were still abundant in random IBM supply closets across the midwest.