Hello to all, Nice 2 meet U

registered · Regular Joined: Oct 08, 2004 Posts: 55 Location: Texas

We’ll here I am, tall, dark, and handsome; 41 years old, 30 pounds over weight, I have an IV running to my arm with coffee in it, I smoke to much, my other computer is your Linux box and I’m coming out of retirement to make ends meet. I told myself a few years back “Self! Your, out of the eCom Biz for good” Yes I was a casualty of the late 90s. I lost more money than most ever make. But am I bitter about it? Hell yes! I wish I was Bill Gates just for one day. I would sell off everything and give the money to the foreskin restoration organization. I have nightmares about ASP. Bang Head

I am glad however, that Php and GNU have come so far. After working with systems like Poststnuke,PHPNuke and osCommerce I fell a new insight into things. I will be asking a lot of questions so I’m really glad that PHPNuke has such a following.

Elray Jones

P.S.

I have DiS-let-see-a, so if anyone tries to point out some small seplling eorro I wiil smach them like a gub. ROTFL

I look forward to working with you all

Have a nice day, and may your God go with you.
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Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

emocleW ot ym eramthgiN! ROTFL

I own and operate this site, have 14 years on you, been 'putin since early 1970! Take some time, get aquainted, and if you're as good as you say you are, show it, then beg me to let you moderate!

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 3:13 pm

I bow to SysOp of Raven, oh, did I say SysOp? I meet Admin. Speaking of SysOp do u remember the days of BBS's such as WildCat, Maxumus, TriBBS and others? I got my start developing doors with QuickBasic and PowerBasic. You know, I still have the boxes that QB & PB came in.....from there....we'll U should know the rest. My point 2 all this chit-chat ....oh, hell I forgot....... anyway thank u for your quick reply... it's nice 2 see that there are some old schools out here... in this youngster land. Nothing against youth...the youth have much knowledge, but knowledge is only a psychological result of perception,learning and reasoning. Wisdom, however, is a trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight It takes time to find wisdom. Oh, there I go again...... L8R

EJ

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 3:42 pm

They lack experience, innovation, and the wisdome that they culminate in. Too much is already done for them Laughing

. Do I remember? I started out using Maximus and PCBoard Smile

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 6:31 pm

Ahhh, I remember the days of the old Wildcat BBS. I worked nights, and I would be online every morning at the time the sysop wanted to do his maintenance. I thought a 300 baud modem was blazing fast, until I got my 1200 baud modem.

Welcome Elray Jones, glad to have you here.

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 10:17 pm

dude, i paid $225.00 each for 3 State-of-Art 2400baud modems with the brand new MNP comp method. I did 90miles an hour on the way home. I had to get back fast to install them on my $1800.00 386dx 33, with a 20meg <yes meg! hard drive. I had 2 be the first SysOp in my area to have a 3line highspeed connect to my BBS for the 1200megs of files I offed on my $800.00 1X dual cdrom stack.

Man, look at us now Groovy

EJ

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 10:22 pm

TRS-80 Model III, first PC - 1979 - 8 meg ram (expanded to 32 eventually). I am/was an 8080 assembly programmer along with PC Cobol, basic, yada yada. The first hard drive I ever owned cost $2500 and had 15 meg (not gig) and had to be partitioned in no more than 5 meg virtual drives. Shall I recant the first IBM mainframe? You will laugh yourself to tears ROTFL

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:29 pm

TSR80 / I loved this thing!!!

This is the Tandy 6000 Business System, it's $1,500 10meg high rpm
disk drive was as big as a desktop. Ran XenixOS. This is what I really cut my teeth on...PS Used 11 1/4 inch floppy drives also..

I helped my dad with assembly for the IBM/360-370 class of "Big Iron" in my teens. I remember using a 360 cross compiler on his 8080. I can't remember the brand of computer the 8080 was on...

anyway this all makes be fell very old.. Shocked

EJ

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:36 pm

Remember it well! My first IBM mainframe (circa 1969) was the IBM Mod20. A whopping 16 meg and was upgraded t0 32 meg. I thought I was in bit/byte heaven! The language de jour was RPG I. Heavy register programming and 80 byte card punch for storage. Man, those were the days when men were men and when you said you were a programmer, you were. You were just a step above assembly and testosterone was in the air. No women allowed. Man-land all the way. Women knew their place - at the key-punch machine boxing

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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:02 am

"Report Programmer Generator" RPG was cool! You just had those, what? 5, sheets to structure the Input-Process-Output... hand them off to the "key punch girl", go get a cup of coffie, come back by... pickup your report(hard copy) go back to your desk, debug, and then do it all over .... agian, ALL DAY LONG.. day after day.... until your program ran with out error. And, that was just the start.. just because it ran without error... did not meen anything! Oh, yes that's when programmers were programmers! You could hold a company by the *alls!!!! back then. IT manager my foot! you were GOD Twisted Evil