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I'm one of the "programmers of yesteryear", part-time in the early '80s on CP/M them on to Windows 3.1 after graduation in 1984.

Doing things the old-fashioned way was harder but less was expected of you, time-wise. Getting a "database" (a set of BTrieve files, usually) set up would take days, editing on floppies, etc. It was just expected that making software was a long process.



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