Re: Douglas will train you to program big computers

> >> I wonder if there are 100 specialists left now who still remember
> >> how to program those "big computers".

The implied emphasis is on "those" meaning those from those "Douglas will
train you" times, the mid 1950s. I still keep on wondering, read below....

> Actually I work for a company that employs well over that, just
> counting the IBM mainframe Assembler knowledgeable programmers. A few
> thousand counting all programmers.

Leon Douglas, sure I find more opportunities for you... ;)

"To engineers whose present job seem to end where they begin....

Going arond in circles? Chances are your present job has become too routine.
At Douglas, long range projects of tremendous scope assure a constant
variety of assignments. Douglas is headed by engineers (Ed: good ol'
times...!) who believe that promotion must come from within. [....] For
example here are ... career opportunities for ... "

** "Analog Computing

Those with degrees in mathematics, physics and engineering are needed to
solve interesting problems on direct analog computers and differential
analyzers.
Knowledge of or experience in dynamics, stress analysis, servo mechanisms,
heat flow and circuit analysis or non-linear mechanis is helpful.

Douglas Aircarft Company. Inc."

> And I want to know who used my last name in the subject?!?!?! ;=))

* Electronics, July 1, 1957
** Electronics, October 1956






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