norcalheeler

6 hours ago, dww said:

Yes I do remember Cobal and Fortran and I did a course on machine code programing in my early days when I was taught how computers work. When I left college I worked for the GPO on a radio station and I was taught about valves all there was back then, transistors came later. as I am a radio ham still like my valves etc. sadly I have not kept up with modern tech and no nothing about mobile phones and programing and the like, I do own one but it is an old nokia about 10 years old, and it still works when I bother to turn it on, don't need one at my age. All I have is an old laptop running windows 7.

I am a ham that also likes radio that glow in the dark, encouraged by a friend who was an engineer at Eimac. Same here on not keeping up with modern tech. Funny thing is I do a lot of bit banging, to make commercial gear useful on the ham bands, but do it all on a Windows XP computer. Computer for the internet is new with Linux that the company bought me. Never had a smart phone and never want one either.

I hate flip flops of any types, especially the cheap rubber type. Another thing, but it is not a type of shoe, is a poor fit with toes hanging over the sole.

You guys that have an accepting wife are so lucky! My wife never liked me in heels, but we did have matching clogs and sandals.

22 hours ago, Cali said:

But do you remember ANSI and Machine codes.  I had a glorified calculator at work in the 70's that I had to program with dip switches, only one in our division who could.  We processed our data from planetary probes through that machine and another one that used paper tape to program,. And then there's 8080 architecture.

@pebblesf you are a youngster!

How about Baudot? Some of us dinosaurs still use it in ham radio and some fools like myself still send and receive it mechanically.

There are quite a few large legacy systems that run COBOL with emulators on modern hardware. Systems (banks, motor vehicles registration, ect) had many thousands of users using various types of equipment to access them so major upgrades are basically impossible. When I worked in public safety communications, we had computers in the police cars that could run a license plate in a few seconds while there was still a Teletype in the office interfaced to the same database so they could get bulletins printed automatically.

To keep this on topic... IBM had a strict dress code and corporate culture. If that code had required heels, then every man would have worn them without question.

I paint my toenails sometimes. It started years ago when I had some tendon problems and had casts on both legs. Nothing puts your toes on display like having your legs in casts. My wife thought it would be fun to paint my nails to match the casts, with green toes on the foot with the blue cast and blue toes on the leg with the green cast. I got the casts changed after a few weeks to purple, and we painted my toes purple to match. When the casts came off, the color on the toes stayed.

Now I mostly use light gray or silver. I get lots of compliments, and never a negative comment.

NCH

Wish you were running in my town. You would have my vote, and I would go vote in heels!

Hope you win!

JH

Hello everyone, I am a new member here and just wanted to say "hi"! I have been reading the forum for some time before becoming a member. Just wanted to be able to join in on the conversations here. I am a man in northern California and like to wear heels whenever I can. I mostly prefer boots as I am most comfortable in them in public. norcalheeler