The worlds first jaded coder/apple fanboi?

Condensed TFA: "I told them to use apple, but would they listen? No, and I had to hand code 90% of everything myself, cos everyone was just that incompetent, and in the end apple was better. yrly"

/CSB!!

This story brings back bad memories of the early days of computing. Of stacks of green bar paper, impact printers, drive A and drive B, dumb terminals, line conditioning, clean rooms, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggg.

I remember playing Adventure on a PDP-11 using a line printer terminal around 1978.
You come upon a dragon sitting on a Persian Rug...
me: Kill dragon
With what, your bare hands?
yes
POOF The dragon magically disappears

I was 15 and got that on the first try.
All the adults were stuck at that point.

Good Times

Then in 1980 at Pitt I took comp science and we were using punch cards, I was like WTF

TLDR: Iowans are pretty dumb.

Brings back memories of FORTRAN class in 1980. Punch cards, line printers and the Computer Center closed at 2:00 a.m. There was also a "remote" terminal lab. If you were lucky, you got one of the two 1200 baud modems.

By 1983, we had DECwriters.

25 years later, one business application we used at work still ran using 3270 Emulators. Changes in the requirements finally broke the COBOL program, and we got a Windows program, that now won't run on Windows 7.

Unobtanium: Brings back memories of FORTRAN class in 1980. Punch cards, line printers and the Computer Center closed at 2:00 a.m. There was also a "remote" terminal lab. If you were lucky, you got one of the two 1200 baud modems.

One of my College professors described how he and all of the other Computer Science students in his college days had to pool their funds together in order to be able to afford to pay for mainframe time to do their assignments, and it was only remotely affordable (cost a bit more than their tuition itself per person) by paying for terminal access during "off-peak" hours (1am to 4am).

I do not remember when that supposedly was, though.

uttertosh: The worlds first jaded coder/apple fanboi?

Condensed TFA: "I told them to use apple, but would they listen? No, and I had to hand code 90% of everything myself, cos everyone was just that incompetent, and in the end apple was better. yrly"

/CSB!!

So Apple sucked in 1977 because you didn't need a truck to move it around? Is that really what you got out of TFA?

/by your logic,if Apple found a cure for cancer, people like you would hate on them because people would just find other ways to die instead

To me, it's just a great story example of how management is often disconnected with changing realities of whatever field you are in, and how they tend to blind themselves once they get hold of a pet idea.

Electrify: uttertosh: The worlds first jaded coder/apple fanboi?

Condensed TFA: "I told them to use apple, but would they listen? No, and I had to hand code 90% of everything myself, cos everyone was just that incompetent, and in the end apple was better. yrly"

/CSB!!

So Apple sucked in 1977 because you didn't need a truck to move it around? Is that really what you got out of TFA?

/by your logic,if Apple found a cure for cancer, people like you would hate on them because people would just find other ways to die instead

Huh?!? How the fark can you read that into my post?

You sound fanboi. A super defensive knee-jerky one at that.

If you read between the lines instead of deciding that I outright stated that apple was crap, you would see that i actually inferred that the guy was correct all along, but was just sounded "i told you so" smug/superior apple fanboi about it all.