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Mainframe, Interrupted

by ehudla on 1/18/19, 12:48 PM with 10 comments

• by 3xblah on 1/19/19, 6:40 AM

  "I'm kind of confused by everyone being called an engineer now. In my day, an engineer was somebody who had an engineering degree, like a civil or mechanical engineer. But programmers or systems analysts weren't that. Do software engineers have engineering degrees?"

  - Joan Greenbaum

• by RcouF1uZ4gsC on 1/19/19, 8:03 AM

  >Clark Squire is now known as Sundiata Acoli. He’s still in prison, on a different charge.

  That charge is for killing a state trooper for which he got a life sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata_Shakur#New_Jersey_Turnp...

• by ehudla on 1/19/19, 7:00 AM

  Interesting how back then programming was a woman's job and the racial divide between programmers and operators.