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I hereby declare that you qualify as an official “Database Old Timer”.
What’s your programming language of choice?
For me it’s PHP and Visual Basic (don’t laugh). At one time I wrote basic programs and very carefully typed the code into a punched tape machine. The code ran over a telephone line to some big GE computer.
Times change.
Tell me about it!!! I began writing Fortran programs on a IBM 1620 computer, which had all of 16k words = 32k Bytes memory to work with and of course punch cards only! One of my Engineering calculations and design program at Link-Belt Company required breaking it up into 25 segments to work with the 16k memory. The program to run was loaded as a huge deck of punched cards, followed by data cards for the specific job. The computer punched out cards with results from Segment #1. Then the segment #2 program was loaded as another huge deck of cards, followed by cards punched out by segment #1 program.... Repeating process 25 times yielded final results which were printed out. Took about 2 hours to run the job! So when disk drives came out (they were 15" diameter) it was huge progress... and you know the rest of story.