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girl_dee · 12-13-2012, 05:51 PM

i worked at a bank, i was in charge of data processing during the time we went from huge big IBMs to PC. Before the IBM we had card files. YES your banking info was written on a passbook in front of you, and manually added and subtracted. We also kept a card file of accounts.

Since no one wanted to go to our new system, "microfiche" i one day removed the big wooden boxes of card files. The tellers were pissed but moved on.

Over the course of 13 years we went from index card files to large magnetic tapes that would take up an entire vault for one day's processing, when i left in 1999 we were on laser discs that you could fit in your pocket. i feel lucky to be there during the computer revolution, i got to train everyone on how to use them (i was new to them myself but very computer savvy) and even set up our online banking program. ATM's were new too, as well as debit cards and many other perks of that era.

i don't remember when i got my first computer at home but i remember it was $4500.00.

i bought it with a bonus check i received for helping to set up the new bank PC system, how ironic. It was a Packard Bell and the monitor weighed 3 tons.

i went online when i ran my own legal courier business in 1999, (AOL and that sound of cranking up) and been online ever since. The first song i downloaded took hours. i was happy for that! Now, it's seconds.

i love technology and fun gadgets!

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girl_dee Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: dee Relationship Status: Hitched up Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Livin’ the Dream Posts: 24,079 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,560 Thanked 54,833 Times in 13,908 Posts Rep Power: 21474873	i worked at a bank, i was in charge of data processing during the time we went from huge big IBMs to PC. Before the IBM we had card files. YES your banking info was written on a passbook in front of you, and manually added and subtracted. We also kept a card file of accounts. Since no one wanted to go to our new system, "microfiche" i one day removed the big wooden boxes of card files. The tellers were pissed but moved on. Over the course of 13 years we went from index card files to large magnetic tapes that would take up an entire vault for one day's processing, when i left in 1999 we were on laser discs that you could fit in your pocket. i feel lucky to be there during the computer revolution, i got to train everyone on how to use them (i was new to them myself but very computer savvy) and even set up our online banking program. ATM's were new too, as well as debit cards and many other perks of that era. i don't remember when i got my first computer at home but i remember it was $4500.00. i bought it with a bonus check i received for helping to set up the new bank PC system, how ironic. It was a Packard Bell and the monitor weighed 3 tons. i went online when i ran my own legal courier business in 1999, (AOL and that sound of cranking up) and been online ever since. The first song i downloaded took hours. i was happy for that! Now, it's seconds. i love technology and fun gadgets!