RE: History of the IT industry

["Michael West" <mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- com>]

From: Peter Neilson :

> For those of us who "were there" in 1978, we frequently saw individual
> programmers who might do all of the following: write a device driver,
> work on a network protocol committee, write code to analyze and manage a
> lab's data (and the manual on how to use said programs), write
> specifications for purchase of a computer that had to be bought through
> crazy government procurement requirements, debug a network, repair the
> computer, snake cables under the floor, and spend each day from 5 to 6
> in the morning doing backups. We didn't call it IT....

Glad to hear it, because what you describe wasn't IT. But what you haven't
said is what business your employer was in. In 1978 I worked for a
commercial bank on La Salle Street in Chicago that had a "Computer Services"
department. All the people in that department worked in the banking
industry.

-- 
Mike West

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