Is it worth complaining to Bridgestone?

[mad2]

Originally Posted by mad2

i couldn't even tell you what machine it was or how we did it ..... but i 'think' we used/made punched tape?. either mid '70's or the late '70's?. school in GTown.

and was possibly only for a month? [don't remember now]. but it was a WOW thing back then as it was my first time on a 'computer', so not as much experience as you blue.

[abrogard]

Originally Posted by aussiblue

Yes University of WA.. No national treasure here and quiet a few would say I am the exact opposite.

My use of the Cyber computer at UWA was actually unauthorised; I was not a student there at the time and was helping a friend who was struggling with his Fortran programming. He went of to be very good last I heard a very senior Oracle DBM manager at Fujitsu. By the the time I did become a part time student at UWA completing my B. Com and MBA in the mid 1970's and 80's, UWA had moved onto the PDP-11 and Fortran 80 which I accessed with my Microbee and dial up modem.

I drifted in and out of both Accounting (I am an FCPA) and computing/IT during my 40 plus years in the State Public Service in nearly a dozen different agencies.. I find accounting boring but easy and IT lost its glamour and hence a lot of my interest after those more exciting pioneering years of the 1970's and 80's had passed. Most of my early IT stuff initially came out of my accounting work and developing or implementing computerised accounting systems.

Most of my last 20 years in the Government was working as a Economist in the policy development area. Nonetheless, including part of my last year before I retired I often filled in as a CFO or an IT manager when they needed someone qualified and experienced urgently when someone resigned without notice, was sacked or more sadly died. It did help keep my skills up in these areas and deal with my propensity to get very quickly bored with any job.

So you've had a long happy productive life... ? Good for you.

[Charliewool]

Only on Ford Forums could a thread about Bridgestone incompetence and snapped wheel studs evolve into the history of computer architecture! And all in under 2 pages too!
(Some really interesting reading just the same)