When I went to work at an aerospace company in '84, we had just started with some kind of CAD program. As a non-design engineer at the time, I wasn't on the list of people allowed to use those computers. I started out writing specifications and work instructions by hand, which the one secretary capable of doing so entered into a mid-frame DEC computer using some sort of text editor. Not long after that, we got IBM PCs with dual floppy drives and got WORDSTAR. What a find! 
That program lost funding and I ended up in a job using DEC VAX computers for antenna design. I ended up using IBM360 computers that were the front end for a CRAY, and VAXES that were the front end processers for some other array processing computers. I did some of that computing for many years, but only having a B Sc degree in a field of Phds, I left to pursue a mechanical job. Finished out my servitude after 25 years with that company and retired early. Worked my ass off, lots of overtime and investing, and fortunately the 401(k) portfolio I invested in worked out OK.
That program lost funding and I ended up in a job using DEC VAX computers for antenna design. I ended up using IBM360 computers that were the front end for a CRAY, and VAXES that were the front end processers for some other array processing computers. I did some of that computing for many years, but only having a B Sc degree in a field of Phds, I left to pursue a mechanical job. Finished out my servitude after 25 years with that company and retired early. Worked my ass off, lots of overtime and investing, and fortunately the 401(k) portfolio I invested in worked out OK.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
