RE: what is the data dictionary?
- From: "Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bill Ferguson" <wbfergus@xxxxxxxxx>, <TESTAJ3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:32:40 -0400
Aw Bill, I remember building my own Apple][ for a motherboard, that was
fun. Also helped that fella invent the handheld notcher for your
floppies. That was real fun, ruined a lot of floppies before we got it
right. OH yes I remember the old Osborne as well. The USAF used them
to help aircrews flight plan. Problem was that they forgot about the
printers. Can't remember how many LPT cords I created. Them was the
fun days, with Bulletin boards instead of the internet. Viruses and
other bugs had a harder time getting around then, but I think I prefer
the current better. For one thing it's easier to read things today
instead of only 40 characters at a time.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead
PAREXEL International
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From: Bill Ferguson [mailto:wbfergus@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:57 AM
To: TESTAJ3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Goulet, Richard; Martin Berger; ORACLE-L;
oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: what is the data dictionary?
You young whipper-snappers!
By cracky, I remember having to start on an old Osborne 1 'sewing
machine' computer. Z-80 (8 bit) processor, 16kb of RAM, 62 column screen
(had to scroll the screen to read a whole line), and 72KB single-sided
floppies.
I was in heaven when some bright, enterprising soul discovered that we
could simply flip the floppies over cut a new read-write notch on the
other side and cut my floppy consumption in half!
LOL
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-- Bill Ferguson
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:45 AM, <TESTAJ3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I had 2 of those, never ran oracle on them though, ran dos and
coherent(old flavor of unix that would run on a 80286). Had the math
co-processor, 80287, made spreadsheet run quicker :)
joe
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