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To: SeekAndFind

So does that mean I have to shelf my vacuum tube design and Fortran 4 skills as well ...


4 posted on 07/21/2009 5:33:42 PM PDT by clamper1797 (An Kenyan KGB agent could not do a better job as president)
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To: clamper1797

This same publication had the following list of obsolete IT skills in 2007 :

1. Cobol
2. Nonrelational DBMS
3. Non-IP networks
4. cc:Mail
5. ColdFusion
6. C programming
7. PowerBuilder
8. Certified NetWare Engineers
9. PC network administrators
10. OS/2


7 posted on 07/21/2009 5:35:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: clamper1797

Tubes live!


10 posted on 07/21/2009 5:36:26 PM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: clamper1797

Gee, how about 360 assembler and JCL? I guess I am finished.


17 posted on 07/21/2009 5:41:25 PM PDT by bytesmith
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To: clamper1797
So does that mean I have to shelf my vacuum tube design and Fortran 4 skills as well ...

Dust off your plotgo and redesign the eglet... (or Eglait if you'll be submitting your design to JohnFKerry)

19 posted on 07/21/2009 5:42:27 PM PDT by This_far
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To: clamper1797

LOL - Fortran was the first thing that sprang to my mind, too. That was my first language...which I suppose qualifies me as a dinosaur.

Keep your soldering iron hot for tubes, though - they still rule the audio roost. :-)


61 posted on 07/21/2009 6:18:26 PM PDT by TrueKnightGalahad (When you're racing...it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.)
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To: clamper1797

Does this mean my X.25 is still in demand?


73 posted on 07/21/2009 7:02:54 PM PDT by chesty_puller (70-73 USMC VietNam 75-79 US Army Wash DC....VietNam was safer.)
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To: clamper1797; kenth

Hmmm, guess I may need to migrate from Pascal.
;>D


97 posted on 07/21/2009 8:56:18 PM PDT by RebelTex (I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!!)
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To: clamper1797; bytesmith; TrueKnightGalahad

Let’s not forget our keypunching skills!

keypunch? what’s that?! These kids nowadays! no respect for what we had to go through to get where they are today.


98 posted on 07/21/2009 9:33:13 PM PDT by PuzzledInTX
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To: clamper1797
So does that mean I have to shelf my vacuum tube design and Fortran 4 skills as well ...

Not if you can design a vacuum tube that is about .002 inches in size:).I personally like the audio tubes produced compared to solid state and digital, but that is just an old ham talking I guess.

195 posted on 07/23/2009 10:21:12 AM PDT by calex59 (I, me, myself, am actually Jim Thompson)
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