TheRealSpaceman
I'm a retired IT executive working stiff. I've been into computers since my tweens and started on my elementary school's HP2000 timesharing Basic system at age 12 (6th grade) in 1971. Back in those heady days of the early microcomputer days, I saw and played on all sorts of legendary computers: Sol computers, Ohio Scientific, Atari 400, TRS-80s, etc. In high school, we had access to the state-wide CDC Cyber 73 supercomputer. By that time I had moved on from Basic to Lisp and Pascal (this was 1979). And dabbled in Cyber 73 assembler.
In 1980, I went to study Physics at Cornell, where I learned Fortran.
Physics has a lot of practical engineering (electronics, mostly), since one has to build their own equipment.
I took several courses in computer science and thought about an additional major, but I was already majoring in Physics and Astronomy. Cornell at that time taught PL/I as their major language. I also used Fortran a lot. And played around with APL.
During high school and on my summer vacations I worked as a computer operator, first on a PDP-8l and later a Modcomp Classic. During school, I worked overnight on Friday and Saturday nights at our synchrotron on several PDP-10s.
After graduating, I went to work for the NSA as a signals analyst where I, wrote programs to support my analysis, mostly in C, on supercomputers (Cray and Convex).
After 10 years, I switched careers into IT, where I picked up databases, architecture, etc.
In 1980, I went to study Physics at Cornell, where I learned Fortran.
Physics has a lot of practical engineering (electronics, mostly), since one has to build their own equipment.
I took several courses in computer science and thought about an additional major, but I was already majoring in Physics and Astronomy. Cornell at that time taught PL/I as their major language. I also used Fortran a lot. And played around with APL.
During high school and on my summer vacations I worked as a computer operator, first on a PDP-8l and later a Modcomp Classic. During school, I worked overnight on Friday and Saturday nights at our synchrotron on several PDP-10s.
After graduating, I went to work for the NSA as a signals analyst where I, wrote programs to support my analysis, mostly in C, on supercomputers (Cray and Convex).
After 10 years, I switched careers into IT, where I picked up databases, architecture, etc.
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