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by sendmarsh 1120 days ago
Worked in Wang UK VS OS tech support in the early '90s.

Best memories:

- Figuring out how to get square root in COBOL (no built-in fn).

- Writing Conway's game of life in Wang assembler (more or less IBM 270/370 assembler).

Worst memories:

Quality Learning Process (QLP) - a completely ineffectual attempt to turn the company around by writing "working together for quality" on mugs, pencils etc. (at least that's how I remember it).