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Data Processing Technician at the time was more along the lines of things like running batch jobs, loading punch cards, loading tapes, and so on. And straight-
by waterlesscloud 12y ago
Data Processing Technician at the time was more along the lines of things like running batch jobs, loading punch cards, loading tapes, and so on. And straight-up data entry work as well.
And some of it was like IT people now, but generally less technical. It was more mechanical, not a coding type job.
It's pretty different from what we classify as computer science degrees now.