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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 07:18:37 JST nixCraft 🐧

   What was your first software developer job?

   • Jon Sagara (jonsagara@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 07:21:04 JST Jon Sagara

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     @nixCraft User Interface developer internship for a Windows replication product.

   • bhaugland (bhaugland@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 07:25:14 JST bhaugland

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     @nixCraft I worked on a doctors service bureau system that was written in 360/370 assembly language

   • pr06lefs (pr06lefs@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 07:26:25 JST pr06lefs

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     @nixCraft IBM 370 assembler, credit card processing.

   • Alex, just zis guy, you know? (alexmorse@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 07:30:23 JST Alex, just zis guy, you know?

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     @nixCraft promoted from tech support after I started automating a bunch of systems at the ISP I was working part time at (mid 90s)

   • Weasel (weaselx86@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 08:35:17 JST Weasel

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     @nixCraft

     PDP-11 assembly language generating vector graphics for an A-7 flight simulator.

   • The Green Knight (greenknight23@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 08:51:02 JST The Green Knight

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     @nixCraft I wrote testing software for lab computers at a college.

     The same college I was attending.

     probably wasn't a wise choice to make me use the same testing software that I wrote...😏

   • Thom (tallthom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 08:54:24 JST Thom

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     @nixCraft medical billing software programmer using a proprietary programming language and database.

   • Niels Moseley (trcwm@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 08:56:45 JST Niels Moseley

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     @nixCraft Reverse engineering and implementing the Win32/GDI32 graphics system in C++ so Word documents could converted into HTML.

   • Roadskater, Ph.D. (roadskater@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 09:25:02 JST Roadskater, Ph.D.

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     @nixCraft Writing school district financial software. Actually, I was probably helping upgrade the code. In BASIC-PLUS on RSTS/E on a PDP 11.

   • MegatronicThronBanks (megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 10:49:44 JST MegatronicThronBanks

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     @nixCraft I don't want to talk about it ...

   • Radio Azureus (radioazureus@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 12:02:09 JST Radio Azureus

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     @nixCraft I trained a bit IBM S34 systems, with those heavy keyboards and 4 character PIN codes

   • andrew_meir (andrew_meir@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 07:09:32 JST andrew_meir

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     @nixCraft coding a vector length calculation on a processor whose only maths accelerator was a single accumulator.