[MaggieL]

Real 1980s programmer: sits down at IBM 3278 mainframe terminal, edits resume into text file containing DCF/Script markup. Prints mailing copies on IBM 3800 laser printer using typewriter font, hoping operations staff running printer doesn't notice (unlikely considering speed printer runs at).

               --signed, real 1980s programmer

(also 1970s programmer, 1990s programmer, 2000s programmer, 2010s programmer)

   current resume http://linkedin.com/in/maggieleber

[technofiend]

After getting into the guts of unix's typesetting system I decided to use it for my resume. I customized the macros used for online help called man pages. Man pages have a reference across the top which cite the command and section so man itself reads man(1).

My resume read RESUME(8) across the top. One person got the joke. One. I went back to using TeX until everyone refused anything but a word doc. Mostly so they could take your information off and replace it the agency info.

[TimTheTinker]

I can see why a real programmer might have favored the typewriter: computer time and printer ink (esp. laser) were expensive and normally reserved for business-related jobs.

[y4mi]

just in case you don't know, that resumee can't be accessed without a linkedin account.

it generally doesn't matter, because most HR employees probably have one where you're from.

[walshemj]

Around that time I think I did mine as a text file using ed on a PDP 11.

[andrewmweaver89]

You worked at Andesa, weird .. I work there now

[Torwald]

This is not weird. The fact you both have worked for the same place makes it more likely that you end up in the same online community as well, not less likely.