RIP Fred Brooks

[Variant_S]

OS/360 designer and Turing Award Winner Fred Brooks passed away yesterday:

https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/18/1352233/fred-brooks-has-died

Does anyone else still have an IBM green card?

 

[JeffKeryk]

The 360/360 Assembly Set was one of the 1st languages I learned.

 

[DukeOfFrontenac]

OS/360 designer and Turing Award Winner Fred Brooks passed away yesterday:

https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/18/1352233/fred-brooks-has-died

Does anyone else still have an IBM green card?

Sad to hear.

Green card was a little before my time. I had a yellow (370) card I bought as a college freshman a LONG time ago. It's likely functioning as a silverfish refuge somewhere in my basement. Probably along with the IBM RPG reference card.

 

[MRC01]

Author of one of the best books about software engineering projects: The Mythical Man-Month.

 

[Variant_S]

Sad to hear.

Green card was a little before my time. I had a yellow (370) card I bought as a college freshman a LONG time ago. It's likely functioning as a silverfish refuge somewhere in my basement. Probably along with the IBM RPG reference card.

I too began with a yellow card. I inherited a green card when a colleague retired and left it in his desk.