Wild Ride

A friend I used to work with over 17 years ago sent me this photo.

I started my IT career in 1979.  I wrote computer programs in Basic Assembler Language and COBOL which were keypunched on to hollerith cards.  These were loaded into a card reader and used to run overnight batch jobs that processed financial data.

When I retired last year in 2012, I directed a group of highly skilled programmers who created browser based and mobile applications using more computing power than Apollo 11 had to get to the moon and back.

Yes old friend J, we certainly have come a long way baby.  What a ride!

;-)