Thread:Mainframebabe/@comment-31592479-20170530160727/@comment-29326205-20170602220040

Grumpy kitty made me LOL! I'm glad I wasn't drinking tea at the time. I would have ruined my keyboard. (I still have sticky keys on my number pad due to an expected, mostly contained, kombucha bottle bomb.)

I remember FORTRAN, BASIC (and not the visual kind), even graded COBOL programs. I even like IBM 360 Assembly code, although I was once reprimanded by my professor for putting in too many comments. Imagine a programmer being scolded for documenting her code! (Like I'd remember what BALR 12,0 would mean 2 years later. I only remember the instruction all these years later but have no clue what it does anymore.) I got very strong arms waiting in line at the college bookstore whilst holding my boxes of punch cards.

I kept Windows 98 for years and only upgraded when my hard drive crashed as I was starting on my master's degree. The College of Business gave us free copies of Windows XP so that's what I used on my home PC. I think we still have a system running it. We ran Windows 7 on all our laptops at work, and I inherited mine when the company was sold. It's now running Windows 10 because I missed clicking on the "NO" button when one of the myriad pop-ups 'suggesting' I upgrade for free last summer. It's turned out okay.

I'm not a computer professional anymore, but I do love to find other computer folks to geek out with.