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The Lounge War Stories My Fifty Years Post 303017311 by jgt on Sunday 13th of May 2018 09:47:29 PM
Old 05-13-2018
My Fifty Years

So there I was in the summer of 1968, 24 years old, single, good job, two year old car with only four payments left, working in the purchasing department of a medium sized manufacturer and getting a free lunch every day with a sales rep. And then they put up an internal job posting for 'Systems Analyst Trainee'.
On Jan 6, 1969 I moved into my new office. My new boss came in with a stack of books, each one about 3 inches thick in heavy post binders.
The Canadian Income Tax Act.
The Federal Sales Tax Act.
The Ontario Provincial Sales Tax Act
The Quebec Provincial Sales Tax Act
The Accountants Reference Manual.
All I had to do for 6 months was read.
In June I talked to my boss about time shared computers, and in August we bought a Teletype ASR35 and arranged a time sharing contract. The minimum billing was about 70 dollars per month (perspective, my house phone was 8 dollars), and for that we had 4k of memory and concurrent access to 8 relative record files each with 100 records of 256 bytes each.
I wrote my first program.
Code:
for i = 1 to 10
print i
next i

Was I now ready for a real application?

To be continued...
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FINGER(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 FINGER(1)

NAME
finger -- user information lookup program SYNOPSIS
finger [-8ghlmops] [user ...] [user@host ...] DESCRIPTION
The finger displays information about the system users. Options are: -8 Pass through 8-bit data. This option is intended for enabling 8-bit data output in the fingerd(8) service. Using this from the com- mand line is dangerous, as the output data may include control characters for your terminal. -g This option restricts the gecos output to only the users' real names. -h When used in conjunction with the -s option, the name of the remote host is displayed instead of the office location and office phone. -l Produces a multi-line format displaying all of the information described for the -s option as well as the user's home directory, home phone number, login shell, mail status, and the contents of the files ``.forward'', ``.plan'' and ``.project'' from the user's home directory. If idle time is at least a minute and less than a day, it is presented in the form ``hh:mm''. Idle times greater than a day are pre- sented as ``d day[s]hh:mm''. Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as ``+N-NNN-NNN-NNNN''. Numbers specified as ten or seven digits are printed as the appropriate subset of that string. Numbers specified as five digits are printed as ``xN-NNNN''. Numbers specified as four digits are printed as ``xNNNN''. If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase ``(messages off)'' is appended to the line containing the device name. One entry per user is displayed with the -l option; if a user is logged on multiple times, terminal information is repeated once per login. Mail status is shown as ``No Mail.'' if there is no mail at all, ``Mail last read DDD MMM ## HH:MM YYYY (TZ)'' if the person has looked at their mailbox since new mail arriving, or ``New mail received ...'', ``Unread since ...'' if they have new mail. -m Prevent matching of user names. User is usually a login name; however, matching will also be done on the users' real names, unless the -m option is supplied. All name matching performed by finger is case insensitive. -o When used in conjunction with the -s option, the office location and office phone information is displayed instead of the name of the remote host. -p Prevents the -l option of finger from displaying the contents of the ``.forward'', ``.plan'' and ``.project'' files. -s finger displays the user's login name, real name, terminal name and write status (as a ``*'' after the terminal name if write permis- sion is denied), idle time, login time, and either office location and office phone number, or the remote host. If -h is given, the remote is printed. If -o is given, the office location and phone number is printed instead (the default). Idle time is in minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes if a ``:'' is present, or days if a ``d'' is present. Login time is displayed as the dayname if less than six days, else month, day, hours and minutes, unless more than six months ago, in which case the year is displayed rather than the hours and minutes. Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and login times are displayed as single asterisks. If no options are specified, finger defaults to the -l style output if operands are provided, otherwise to the -s style. Note that some fields may be missing, in either format, if information is not available for them. If no arguments are specified, finger will print an entry for each user currently logged into the system. finger may be used to look up users on a remote machine. The format is to specify a user as ``user@host'', or ``@host'', where the default output format for the former is the -l style, and the default output format for the latter is the -s style. The -l option is the only option that may be passed to a remote machine. FILES
/var/log/lastlog last login data base SEE ALSO
chpass(1), w(1), who(1) HISTORY
The finger command appeared in 3.0BSD. BSD
September 12, 2002 BSD
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