Created Osomite's User Page 06:08, 8 July 2013
So here I am almost seven years later and I have not written anything on my "created user page".
My first edit as a registered Wikipedia editor was on September 28, 2007, in the article one-hoss shay. Who knew that I had subject matter expertise in the high-tech area of one-hoss shays?
Osomite (talk) 18:10, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
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I am not exactly a computer Luddite, although I am not exactly sure that electricity works--it's all magic to me (if you can't see it, it must be magic).
In 1963, in Engineering School at UC Berkeley (Go Bears!), I was in the first course that taught computer programming.
I have degrees in engineering, systems management, management and finance (BS, MS, MBA).
In my previous life, I have worked as an Industrial Engineer, operations research analyst, computer systems analyst, systems engineer, developer, system designer, and software development manager. I still have the punch card deck for the last Fortran program I wrote in 1979.
At one time I worked with a man who was a mainframe systems engineer who worked on the team that invented COBOL. Grace Hopper was a member of that team. She was the person who coined the term "bug" (you know, when a piece of program software has an error, that defect is called a bug), but that's another story.
Beginning in 1973, I started my career in "data processing" as it was called back in the day. My first computer was a "mini-computer" which had 32K of memory, a 20-megabyte hard disk (yes, megabytes), and a FORTRAN compiler. This computer, although was "state-of-the-art" technology at the time, compared to the 21st Century stuff, it was very fundamental. It had "blinking lights" on a thing laughingly called "the program console". To initially start the computer it had to be bootstrapped by entering an assembly language (aka machine code) program manually into the program console register--this bootstrap program consisted of 32 Hexidecimal commands that had to be perfectly entered into "the program console", otherwise nothing happened. This "bootstrap" machine code program, after being perfectly entered, then reads a punched tape program from the connected teletype console. At this point, finally, the operating system program which was called "RTOS" (Real-Time Operating System) was in memory and that was the starting place so the FORTRAN compiler could be used. RTOS was long before Microsoft entered the industry and created the Windows operating system and all that "end-user" software. Whatever I did had to be created from scratch, written in FORTRAN (it was Version IV, but still, the error diagnostics were pretty primitive). The disk drive was about the size of a washing machine and the removable 20-meg hard disk weighed about 20 pounds--ah, the good old days.
After I wrote this section I came across an actual Wikipedia article that said that Wikipedia is not a reliable source:
Check out this Google search, it seems the unreliability of Wikipedia is a thing:
The Big Country
Here is a link to the youtube version of the "The Big Count" theme
The theme from the movie "The Big Country"
And another version of "The Big Country"
And another "The Big Country" version
Ride Away - theme from the movie The Searchers
The Sons Of Pioneers - What Makes A Man To Wander
The Opening Credits and overture from the movie "Giant"
Also the theme from the movie "Giant"
And this version of the "Giant" theme is Ok too
And James Dean's best from "Giant"
Ballad of Jeremiah Johnson - The Way That You Wander
Opening scenes from the movie Jeremiah Johnson
The Ballad of Jeremiah Johnson by Brennen Leigh from her album "Too Thin to Plow"
North to Alaska by Brennen Leigh from her album "Too Thin to Plow"
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"User" - /ˈyo͞ozər/ - Wherever did this nomenclature come from? The movie Tron?
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OMG. I have been editing Wikipedia since 2007 and did not realize that there was documentation for the Wikipedia markup language.