From d6068cefd5c21efdb05091b2f85c8423c2fe80bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Kemp Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 15:42:43 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Create 2021-12-30-first-project --- docs/_posts/2021-12-30-first-project | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/_posts/2021-12-30-first-project diff --git a/docs/_posts/2021-12-30-first-project b/docs/_posts/2021-12-30-first-project new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac52349 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/_posts/2021-12-30-first-project @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "" +date: 2021-01-18 12:00:00 -0000 +categories: clipper dbase c assembler windows +--- +It was my first fulltime job after graduating from university. I'd been hired by a prominent building society +(mortgage bank). We were an IBM shop, and I'd been lucky enough to work with IBM's innovative OS/2 operating +system, but Bob, the company CTO was very much a fan of Windows (3?). In the meantime though, we had 550 branch +offices all running [IBM 3270 financial controller terminals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270) connected +via coax, to our mighty old mainframe. + +The big plan of the day was to replace that little lot with PCs running Windows, and a local area (token ring) network in each office.