[rawgabbit]

At University, I learned the joys of TSO, emacs, and unix. There was no mouse or arrow keys or delete keys. I had to learn weird key combinations to line up, line down, character left, character right, delete etc. To see the output, I had to print the dang thing out which was across the street in a different building.

First real job was at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. I programmed in a DEC VMS environment. My Fortran program read the raw output from strain gauges attached to a USAF jet trainer and processed the data which made it possible to track the airframe's weakening due to cyclic fatigue. It was just a bunch of I/O calls and loops. It was delivered to the USAF as part of their program to predict airframe fatigue. This time, there was a mouse but it didn't do anything. Because once I logged into the DEC VMS, it was all keystrokes again. My program was one giant file something like 5K lines.