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A tale of mainframes and students being too clever by far

Olivier2553

Strange association

After high school, I did not want to go to University, instead I did a 2 years technical degree in computer stuff. At the end of the two years we had a couple of months of internship that I did in a lab developing digital cameras for the television. My task was to interface a math coprocessor to a machine running a Motorola CPU, design the hardware, program the driver all in assembler... The students were assigned a professor who was in charge of following what work was being made by the student. For some reason known only to the university administration, the professor working with me was the person in charge of teaching us COBOL. No need to say that he never really understood what I was doing.

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