some time ago, squeezed memories of my time in CITES-at least so I thought, "I left this blog and created another, with my own name, where you keep writing and reviewing stage, more extensive and varied, which I have been unfolding, over the years.
But, a stage, so long and decisive, it is difficult to ignore, especially when any episode, in which you want to write or speak, you take it, because with it was related.
At this time, when I'm sitting at a computer screen, with the happened-now, as before, a good portion of my time, I wanted to write about my beginnings in the computer (as long as the user) and Therefore, has led me, inexorably, to go back several years and reunited with Cites. The factory had
-on that has already been written on this blog-a department, who led Florentino Martinez Roces. But, that was a world, closed to others, a kind of sanctuary inaccessible to the layman, but that controlled many aspects of the factory, through hardware and software that IBM systems produced. The involvement of others was restricted access to their reports, which reached us in copious listings paper and, sometimes, through the terminals (not smart), which is distributed by the offices.
The beginning of the "other computing "came with the arrival of a first personal computer, which bought Pepe Ranes, and fell into my hands, by circumstances, of which I have written another entry in this blog. So I can consider, to some extent, pioneering the use in CITES of computers.
was not even, so then known as PC 's, but a Commodore with double drive and whose operating system, integrated into the ROM, only allowed to program in BASIC and used a primitive spreadsheet (Visi Calc), plus some games.
I learned to use the Basic - of course, now I could not do it, and your spreadsheet, to carry control of certain parameters and make the presentation of results in management meetings.
moved my nascent love of my home, through the purchase of a Commodore 64, used as the only peripheral, in my case, a cassette deck and my own TV screen.
Later, under CITES, came the first PC's, marketed and manufactured by ITT in any Asian country. Y. I, taking advantage of an offer to the employees, I bought one, with which I replaced my Commdore.
They were still very rudimentary computers-the 386 or perhaps earlier, with monochrome display, which used the MS2 and where, your RAM and hard disk capacity, just be measured by megabytes.
With them came new software packages: Lotus, as a spreadsheet, the Word Star (later, the Word Perfect), for word processing and Dbase, as the basis for baths.
The use of these computers, still rudimentary, without Microsoft and the Internet, managed, despite all imposed and spread throughout the factory. And Informatics, ceased to be something mysterious and almost taboo.
Today, I follow with a computer, the new technology has allowed me peek into the world via the Internet and, inter alia, to meet again old friends and colleagues.
This little story of my early "computer" perhaps were not intended for this space. But while he was writing, has led me to the only place where she had to be located and could not be other than this blog.
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