Wow! Back in my day they would melt into a puddle on the floor. 60 hour weeks were common. I once put in 106 hours in a week.
I did 7 days a week, 12 hour a day for two months strait during the first Gulf war and I wasn't even in the military.
Made a lost of money on OT and partied hard on my per deim.
“Wow! Back in my day they would melt into a puddle on the floor. 60 hour weeks were common. I once put in 106 hours in a week.”
indeed ... back in the day, as a computer science grad student, i once had to write an entire operating system from scratch in assembler language for a Nova 1200 ... my only tool was a cross-assembler run on a CDC 6400 ... OS was written on Hollerith cards and output was a paper tape punched on a GE ASR 33 Teletype and then read into the Nova 1200 with a paper tape reader activated by keying in a primitive boot loader from the front panel ...
I did a 110 hour week on a platform in the gulf. Two guys got fired and one guy got hurt. Long story short, I filled in