Re: dbdebunk 'Quote of Week' comment

From: David Cressey <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 09:09:26 GMT
Message-ID: <arCNe.9030$ns.1427@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>

"Frank_Hamersley" <terabite_at_isat.bigpond.com> wrote in message news:NclNe.4651$FA3.3258_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au...

> I guess I should declare 27 years of involvement with gadgets starting in
> the age of PDP-8/11's, Altairs, Alpha Micro, CDC Cybers (what a machine
that
> was) might have taught me a few tricks in this regard. So all you pups
> searching for gems should prolly accord 80 in an 80/20 measure of Joes
> dissertation.

Hmmm. I started out with an IBM 7090 and a PDP-1 (That's a one, not an eleven), From there moving on to PDP-6 and 10, DECsystem-10 and 20, and VAX. SQL came much later for me, after Pascal, Datatrieve, and VAX Rdb/VMS.

Celko is right in his diatribe, but he lays it on too thick. Received on Sat Aug 20 2005 - 04:09:26 CDT