[mikewarot]

I was a programmer in the 80s. We had MS-DOS, Turbo Pascal (with it's damned fine documentation, in an actual book, and help files).

The hardware sucked, but we didn't have to worry about anything other than putting characters on a screen, eventually VGA graphics if we got fancy. There was one platform, the IBM compatible PC, and that was the only one I worried about.

We didn't have GIT, we had PkZip, and a stack of floppy disks with labels like "Source Backup v42 2/3/89". If we made a mistake, we had to manually revert.

I wrote "OverSeer" - a program that managed the inspection of Fire Extinguishers, using hand-held computers and barcode scanners from the Norand corporation of Iowa. Eventually it was adapted to other uses. It was written in Turbo Pascal. All the libraries were my own, including one to do cooperative multi-tasking.

Our customers were in Northern Illinois, and I was the programmer/tech.

As me anything. ;-)

[Edit - Extended description of the stuff I wrote]

[emadehsan]

Very interesting. I'm curious that what software did you build or maintain? :)

[mikewarot]

I revised / extended the description of OverSeer, the program I wrote/maintained/supported.