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Heard the one where the boss calls in an Oracle consultant who couldn't fix the database?

Marshalltown

What computers

In college in the late seventies, where I did my degree, there were only punch card computers, and I personally never took a computer course. There were texts in the book store and a little later PCs and a bit after that Turbo Pascal. Bits of BASIC, Avenue (used in GIS but discarded by ArchGIS for Visual Basic). Bits of FORTRAN, PROLOG, ... Finally I got my hammer and hiking boots back, but, you can never really leave.

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