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On 02/01/2013 22:18, George Parker wrote:
Come the "festive season" I sort of go into a family induced coma and I've just caught up with the Web Site etc thread. What have you guys been on since I was last here? Will I turn on my computer and find my DCLUG folder, and thus my life, empty?I must admit I winced :) It's not that it's boring just that it reminds me of my degree taken as a mature student about three years ago, and yes they do teach the fundamentals of data warehousing and data mining etc :)I'm in my 70's now and, I suspect, am not alone on this site. I started making my living in electronics in 1962 and my first computer was a 6 foot rack of valve units, each being a 4 bit register decoding IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) codes. (Yes, I was in the RAF). Electronics then bit you if you weren't careful. I ended up in IS managing the introduction of data warehousing (if you don't know don't ask. It's boring).
Sounds like a fascinating time to be in electronics, especially IFF since that was an essential component of the defence network during the Cold War (and still is, albeit I don't think we're watching for Badgers and Bears etc anymore :))
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