5 old-school ideas that weren’t so bad: what we miss about MIS
Posted by Mike on Friday, December 31, 2010 - 205 views
Cobol was king and MIS ruled from on high — some old-school tech management practices we’d like to see revived. READ ON
Demand Still There for Mainframe Expertise
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 278 views
Mainframe skills are in demand, with the old-school technology continuing to play a key role in enterprise computing and even factoring heavily in cloud-connected strategies. READ MORE
What we miss about MIS: Old-school ideas that weren’t so bad
Posted by Mike on Friday, October 1, 2010 - 228 views
Back before the age of the PC, men in computer science — and they were almost always men — wearing white shirts, ties and pocket protectors spent their days punching data requests onto cards.
This was the highly specialized, highly centralized computing environment of the day, centered on machines like the IBM System/360, launched in 1964. The System/360 was programmed with punch cards (formally called Hollerith cards, named for Herman Hollerith, who invented them in 1887 for use in census tabulating and started a company that would lead to the formation of IBM).
Eight Signs You’ve Been in IT Too Long
Posted by Mike on Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 191 views
Are you an old-school techie? In a world where IT workers are hip, the old image of geeks without a shred of modern sensibility has been shattered. The invisible nerds of yesteryear, eating leftover pizza in the middle of the night at their cubicles, have been replaced by 21st Century technorati, a legion of iPhone-toting, night-clubbing, courier bag-carrying, California cuisine-eating fashionistas.
