sappatoti
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ORIGINAL: Petronius (from post #309) ... Claims for Lothlauren's great computer expertise include, I believe, his work in the computer industry since he was 12(!), ... ... I do not know Lothlauren, thus I do not know of his history and experience in the computer industry. However, Petronius, I have to ask why you find it difficult to believe that he could have made a contribution at the age of 12? If I may bore you with my own evidence... when I was 16 (1975) I was engaged in writing COBOL and SNOBOL code on our school's MDS-2100 system. My programming, while useful in my training, also had the purpose of being used to record, tabulate, and report student grade averages and test scores to the state's (the name of the state is irrelevant to my point) education department. As your profile states that you're physically older than I, you will recognize the fact that at that time, microprocessors were neither common nor proven for government or business use. Almost all daily processing done for commercial, governmental, and defense use was done with the "big iron" mainframes, of which the MDS-2100 is but one example of the many, many styles and manufacturers at the time. Remember DEC (VAX, PDP), Sperry & Burroughs (UNIVAC and the B-series), IBM... the list goes on. I find it particularly disturbing that your sole purpose here is not to contribute anything useful, at all, to the original post. Instead, your purpose, as evidenced by your own writings, seems to have been to question, berate, and antagonize those who are trying, at some level, to contribute to the topic of the original post. I simply don't understand your motivation... what it is personally that you're trying to get from this thread. I implied in an earlier post (#179) that you lost all credibility in my eyes. That has not changed. My intent was to not respond to any more of your rambling thoughts. But I cannot believe, with all your posturing that even you, Petronius, cannot be so open-minded as to accept the possibility that people are whom they're claiming to be in general; that Lothlauren could have contributed to the computer field at the age of 12 specifically. Is this a small point that I've babbled on in this particular post? Certainly, and I would even say that it, too, is as irrelevant to the original post as many of your posts have been. However, it was with this one, small point that I believe I have caught a glimpse of your seeming motivations here. I just don't get it...
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