andrew_meir, 4 months ago

@nixCraft coding a vector length calculation on a processor whose only maths accelerator was a single accumulator.

RadioAzureus, 4 months ago

@nixCraft I worked a bit on IBM S34 systems, with those heavy keyboards and 4 character PIN codes.

#S34 #S36 no #COBOL #RetroComputing

megatronicthronbanks, 4 months ago

@nixCraft I don't want to talk about it ...

roadskater, 4 months ago

@nixCraft Writing school district financial software. Actually, I was probably helping upgrade the code. In BASIC-PLUS on RSTS/E on a PDP 11.

trcwm, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

@nixCraft Reverse engineering and implementing the Win32/GDI32 graphics system in C++ so Word documents could be converted into HTML.

tallthom, 4 months ago

@nixCraft medical billing software programmer using a proprietary programming language and database.

GreenKnight23, 4 months ago

@nixCraft I wrote testing software for lab computers at a college.

The same college I was attending.

probably wasn't a wise choice to make me use the same testing software that I wrote...😏

weaselx86, 4 months ago

@nixCraft

PDP-11 assembly language generating vector graphics for an A-7 flight simulator.

BoydStephenSmithJr, 4 months ago

@nixCraft I first did professional software development in high school, with MS Access and VBA. My job at the time was more of a PFY to run cables and to grunt work for a much more time experienced professional tech (not a BOFH), but he didn't program and the motel didn't have the budget for anything better.

I don't know how long it was in service before they rolled back to Excel for everything, I never got a support request after that summer.

My first SW dev position was with TopCoder.

alexmorse, 4 months ago

@nixCraft promoted from tech support after I started automating a bunch of systems at the ISP I was working part time at (mid 90s)

fuchsiii, 4 months ago

@nixCraft

Freelancing making custom Wordpress templates.

I'm forever scarred by the monster that is PHP...

flashbacks

Crell, 4 months ago

@fuchsiii @nixCraft In fairness, the monster there is WordPress, not PHP. Even most PHP people dislike WordPress.

rvxlab, 4 months ago

@Crell @fuchsiii @nixCraft I wish more developers outside the PHP ecosystem would see it that way. PHP’s ecosystem is amazing nowadays!

pr06lefs, 4 months ago

@nixCraft IBM 370 assembler, credit card processing.

bhaugland, 4 months ago

@nixCraft I worked on a doctors service bureau system that was written in 360/370 assembly language

jonsagara, 4 months ago

@nixCraft User Interface developer internship for a Windows replication product.