>>>>>Tom, I'll be there in the next few weeks. A pint would be great!
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>>>>John;
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>>>>Let me know when. I know every Irish and British Pub between here and San Francisco! Now where is my Guinness glass? :)
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>>>Did you knew those before you began to develop with .Net? ;-)
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>>Denis;
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>>Oh yes! In fact I knew most of these places before the PC was invented! Like main frame days! Or was that Flintstones with stone tabloids? :)
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>I just wanted to know when the booze (problem? ;-D) started.
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>I forgot about your mainframe days. That only is enough of a reason
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>I can only imagine how it must feel like to slip out thousands of punched-cards representing the debugged version of a COBOL app.
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>By the way I experienced the creation of a cobol app on an IBM-360 while I did my studies. But at that time the 360 was a very old computer.

Denis;

I was lucky - I used FORTRAN to crunch numbers! :)

In 1962 I build a mainframe computer for my employer. How many 2N404 transistors did that take? Man - I want to forget that experience! :)

Tom