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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

05-13-2018

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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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car

car(1)								   GNU Telephony							    car(1)

NAME

       car - crytographic archiver.

SYNOPSIS

       car [options] [paths...]
       car --decode [.carfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Creates	and  decodes portable cross-platform crytographic archives.  An archive can be a collection of files, or an in-stream message that
       is piped.  Output can be to a binary .car file, or ascified text.  A symetric cipher is used, and the passhrase is hashed to form a key.

OPTIONS

       --cipher=name
	      Specify symetric cipher.	By default 256 bit aes is used.

       --decrypt
	      Specify decryption operation on an existing car stream or file.  If no file is specified, stdin is used.

       --digest=name
	      Specify name of digest algorithm.  By default sha will be used.

       --follow
	      Dereference and follow symlinks.	Otherwise they are ignored.

       --output=filename
	      Specify output file for a new archive.  By default stdout is used.

       --overwrite
	      Always overwrite existing files without prompting.

       --quiet
	      Non-interactive and no status output.

       --recursive
	      If argument is a directory, recursively scan directory and any subdirectory contents as arguments.

       --help Outputs help screen for the user.

AUTHOR

       car was written by David Sugar <dyfet@gnutelephony.org>.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to bug-commoncpp@gnu.org.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2010 David Sugar, Tycho Softworks.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

GNU uCommon							   January 2010 							    car(1)