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Interesting thing I never knew about my grandfather
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:16 am
by Jackolantern
I found out something interesting about my grandfather I never knew until recently (years after he passed away). He was a programmer! He was actually a programmer for the U.S. Army in Oakridge, TN lol. He did punch card programming for the giant mainframes there. Apparently he hated punch cards so much (like many programmers of that era) that he never wanted a personal computer when they came out in the late 70's, and thus I never even knew he had computer knowledge lol. That and he only had something like a 6th grade education when he went into the military, as he was from the sticks lol.
Does anyone else have programmers in their family tree? It seems like such a modern thing, but I guess this just shows that someone younger than me may have ever had a programming great grandfather lol.
Re: Interesting thing I never knew about my grandfather
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 10:36 am
by Callan S.
[python] In my day we used punch cards,
and we liked it! [/python*]
Punch cards - wow. Interesting though how it shows intellect is hardly a matter of where you are born or that all education is the same - punch cards can not be an easy intellectual endevour!
Though halls is going to do a tute series on it, IIRC...........
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Good story, Jack!
* No, not the programming language!
Re: Interesting thing I never knew about my grandfather
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 1:54 pm
by hallsofvallhalla
Tutorial series on Punch Cards....hmmm not a bad idea muhahaha
My Aunt was one of main programmers for Corel Draw back in the 90's. She sadly passed away in the 90's so I never got to talk to her about it.
Re: Interesting thing I never knew about my grandfather
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 2:04 pm
by vitinho444
Wow jacko that's a very cool finding
Re: Interesting thing I never knew about my grandfather
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 6:46 pm
by Jackolantern
hallsofvallhalla wrote:My Aunt was one of main programmers for Corel Draw back in the 90's. She sadly passed away in the 90's so I never got to talk to her about it.
Really? That is cool! Corel Draw came with my first real PC, and my sister and I used to mess around with it all the time
Re: Interesting thing I never knew about my grandfather
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:15 pm
by hallsofvallhalla
It was the photoshop back in the day
Re: Interesting thing I never knew about my grandfather
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:01 pm
by Jackolantern
Most definitely! In fact, even in Adobe's early days, Photoshop was seen as the generic imposter to Corel Draw lol.
Re: Interesting thing I never knew about my grandfather
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 1:26 am
by padda
I dont got any programmers in my family, im the only one, but my grandfather build his own computer for about 20 years ago and not just putt a motherboard and cpu together etc but made his own motherboard etc, to bad he sold that computer
wish i ad that computer today
Re: Interesting thing I never knew about my grandfather
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 4:03 am
by Jackolantern
That is cool! I took computer architecture last semester, and good lord...the last thing I would want to do now is make a computer from scratch lol.
Re: Interesting thing I never knew about my grandfather
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 10:22 pm
by Verahta
My grandmother was also a punch card programmer, but for private companies not the military.