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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: I don't want your Thorntail
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Ken Finnigan (@kenfinnigan) about:
Commodore 64 in 1984,
Commodore 128D in 1986,
creating a Star Wars game,
approaching the dark star,
a Gateway XT with 20 MB hard drive and 640kB RAM,
playing with DBase IV, Lotus 1-2-3 and Delphi,
implementing software for baseball statistics in 1989,
surviving a Giants game in San Francisco,
learning C++, Modula 2 and assembly programming at university,
the JavaONE session marathon,
learning Java in 1999,
enjoying Java programming,
starting at IBM Global Services Australian,
introduction to the enterprise world with PL 1, Job Control Language (JCL), AIX,
CICS and CTG,
starting to work with Java 1.2 at...