[Rose in RoseBear]

Beside my desk, here at home, I have a 3ft wide built-in shelf unit that stretches from floor to ceiling. On those shelves, I see:

• XICS Between The Lines, XICS Level II class notes (several binders' worth);
• a box labeled Microsoft Mouse & EasyCAD2;
• dBase III Plus;
• Reflex
• ProSoft Fontasy;
• Two suede binders that came with my Kompak (now known as HewPaq) luggable;
• a SideKick manual;
• MS-DOS 3.3 user's guide and reference;
• Advanced MS-DOS;
• an XTree Pro manual;
• Programmer's Problem Solver For IBM PC, XT, and AT;
• Advanced C Programming On The IBM PC;
• C Programmer's Guide To Serial Communications;
• Turbo C and Stretching Turbo C;
• Microsoft Macro Assembler Bible, Zen of Assembly Language, and Zen of Code Optimization;
• Programming Windows 3.1 by Charles Petzold, and Windows 3.1: A Developer's Guide.

<chuckling> Jen, girlfriend, have you ever even seen Windows 3.1? What languages do you code?

[2Jedismom]

Best wishes on the interview, Rose!

[Ramius]

MS-DOS 3.3 user's guide and reference;

Bwaahahha... OMG I think I still have that one too. Yikes.

[300winmag]

Jen, girlfriend, have you ever even seen Windows 3.1? What languages do you code?

Amateur. I have a 1960 manual for the IBM 88 collator. I even remember seeing those things in the old days. Never could figure out how they worked. Maybe I'll read the manual.

I think I have a 1955-vintage manual for and IBM 650 around here somewhere. When the school took a donated IBM 650 back in the late 1960s, we quickly convinced them they did NOT want to use it. Had the power of a moderately-healthy programmable calculator.

Instead, we got to strip it for scap. I got some of the nameplates somewhere, but the but prize was the half-horse motor that spun the 10K drum memory. It is still powering my dad's table saw.

[Professional Engineer]

dBase III Plus;

I remember that.

(He says wistfully.)

[JenB]

Jen, girlfriend, have you ever even seen Windows 3.1? What languages do you code?

I actually have seen Windows 3.1! When I was six, that was the OS on our only computer. I thought Windows 95 was great when it came along.

I mostly program in C++, Javascript (well... sometimes it's programming) and VBScript. Also a little Java. But I know the differences between ANSI C and C++!