{"id":335,"date":"2005-10-28T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=335"},"modified":"2005-10-28T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T18:51:00","slug":"working-in-the-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Working in the 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While walking back up to my office with my lunch, I passed by the area that used to house the corporate computer center. I thought about the hanging folders for printouts, the 1403 printers and mainframes that used to be there. It made me think back to the 1950s and 1960s, and a question for y&#8217;all:<\/p>\n<p><b>Would you be able to do the job you do today in the 1960s?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You wouldn&#8217;t be doing your own word processing and writing. Instead, you would write out reports and such <i>longhand<\/i>, and pass it to a secretary to type up.\n<li>If you are a programmer, you likely wouldn&#8217;t be entering your program yourself. Instead, you would be preparing programming forms, and passing them to a keypuncher to punch. You might occasionally put your fingers to the 026 or 029, but it would be unlikely once you moved up the ranks.\n<li>You wouldn&#8217;t have instantaneous outputs. You might get one or two runs of your program a day, and have to get the output at the computing center, not from the printer in your office.\n<li>You wouldn&#8217;t have instantaneous information. You would be looking up information in books and files.\n<li>You wouldn&#8217;t have your nice cubicles. You&#8217;ld be in a &#8220;bullpen&#8221;. Think &#8220;How to Succeed in Business&#8221;. Rows and rows of desks.\n<li>One question: Got sliderule?<\/ul>\n<p>So, could you do it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While walking back up to my office with my lunch, I passed by the area that used to house the corporate computer center. I thought about the hanging folders for printouts, the 1403 printers and mainframes that used to be there. It made me think back to the 1950s and 1960s, and a question for <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=335\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,1],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-lj-xfer","tag-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}