9 Aug
2012
9 Aug
'12
4:56 a.m.
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 11:53:48 -0700 (PDT), Fred Cisin
<cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
He was
well-regarded by his colleagues, and displeased when I suggested that
a
TEACHER of FORTRAN should surely be ably to debug such an obvious
error,
for his was too highly evolved a mind to concern itself with whether
it
should be a comma or a full-stop between the device number and the
FORMAT
statement number in a WRITE statement (such being the ways of the
Grand
Academy of Lagado, and most of the rest of Academia). When he moved
to a
different university a few years later, I was given his job, starting
with
teaching FORTRAN, now on 5150 with MS-FORTRAN.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-08-05/
/Jonas
9 Aug
9 Aug
2:52 p.m.
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 jonas at otter.se wrote:
Believe me, our community college district far surpasses anything in
Dilbert, or even Jonathan Swift's recounting of the Grand Academy of
Lagado (Part 3 in Gulliver's Travels)
To bring it back on topic, . . .
They once wanted me to make a BIG DEAL out of a donation of a Fortune
Systems Computer. I told them it would be nice to have, but that it
was NOT a "SUPER Computer", as they had on the paperwork.
Before that, they once upgraded a half dozen TRS80IIIs to TRS80IVs, at a
cost of $700 each, when IVs were available without drives and RAM for $600
each, and the current lab techs were thoroughly familiar with how to swap
drives and RAM, AND had enough extra drives and RAM that the IIIs could
have remained and ADD the IVs.
At another time, they wanted us to trade in the 50 286 PCs with Hercules
video that comprised our student lab (used by a few hundred students for
WordPervert, Windoze 3.10, C, BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, etc.) for 3 486s.
When the administration upgraded THEIR machines from 386 to Pentium, I
begged them to let us have the 386s to upgrade our 286 based lab. They
refused, because they were getting $100 EACH (with their VGA and color
monitors)! as trade-ins on their 386 to Pentium upgrade.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
3:21 p.m.
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 jonas at otter.se wrote:
Believe me, our community college district far surpasses anything in
Dilbert, or even Jonathan Swift's recounting of the Grand Academy of
Lagado (Part 3 in Gulliver's Travels)
To bring it back on topic, . . .
They once wanted me to make a BIG DEAL out of a donation of a Fortune
Systems Computer. I told them it would be nice to have, but that it
was NOT a "SUPER Computer", as they had on the paperwork.
Before that, they once upgraded a half dozen TRS80IIIs to TRS80IVs, at a
cost of $700 each, when IVs were available without drives and RAM for $600
each, and the current lab techs were thoroughly familiar with how to swap
drives and RAM, AND had enough extra drives and RAM that the IIIs could
have remained and ADD the IVs.
My best guess is that you only work there due to the entertainment value
of what stupid thing the adminstration is going to do next. :)
g.
--
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[Cipher in a.s.r]
4:30 p.m.
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, geneb wrote:
My best guess is that you only work there due to the
entertainment value
of what stupid thing the adminstration is going to do next. :)
If I can stand 2.00 more semesters, then I can retire with medical
benefits at close to 75% of what I make now.
4:42 p.m.
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, geneb wrote:
You'll miss them. You know you will. :)
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_!
Buying desktop hardware and installing a server OS doesn't make a
server-class system any more than sitting in a puddle makes you a duck.
[Cipher in a.s.r]
My best guess is that you only work there due to
the entertainment value
of what stupid thing the adminstration is going to do next. :)
If I can stand 2.00 more semesters, then I can retire with medical
benefits at close to 75% of what I make now.
4:15 p.m.
On 9 Aug 2012 at 11:52, Fred Cisin wrote:
They once wanted me to make a BIG DEAL out of a
donation of a Fortune
Systems Computer. I told them it would be nice to have, but that it
was NOT a "SUPER Computer", as they had on the paperwork.
That brings up an interesting question. Which is faster, a Fortune
32:16 or an IBM System/3?
--Chuck
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