Picture courtesy of Frank Sheeman Today marks a special occasion and perhaps not one that you might expect I would bring to everyone’s attention. Yes, on this day March 2, 1970, I began my career in IT. As a trainee “Cadet Programmer”, working for steelworks south of Sydney, I spent two years learning the art of programming. At that time of lowly pay structure for cadets of any discipline in the steelworks, I just couldn’t wait to move on and to take one more step in a career that would continue to this day. In the posts to this blog I have covered many aspects of my life in IT so I won’t revisit it in this post. However, it was in my early days working for Tandem Computers that I ran into the practice within Tandem of producing tee shirts to celebrate almost any occasion. Be it a new program, a new product or even just a feature, the creation of a new department or the opening of a new building, they were all celebrated with a tee shirt. One colleague told me that his parent...
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