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Originally Posted by WarChild
I think the highest pressure programming job I ever had was for an electronics manufacturer called Glenayre. One of my first jobs, worked my way up from the bottom.
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A fuck up at that job that stopped an 8 hour production shift (they ran 24 hours) could easily account for a loss of more than $1,000,000 revenue. I was 21 when I started that.  |
I love these stories.
18 years old, here. Fresh out of high school and taking classes when not working. Ever eaten a banana or a potato? Yeah, I worked on the software for the machines that would grade them by size, weight, any bad spots, etc.
I took it from an RS-232 card plugged into a C64 to an RS422 adaptor connected to an IBM PC system, so you didn't have to worry about shorting out your equipment on site - you could get nearly a mile distance with the RS422.
Of course, Windows 95 just came out and I was to use that, despite the fact that there were no native drivers for the one line card that had enough power to handle the task. No problem.. just use Soft-ICE and step through the code when sending/recv'ing transmissions and build one that way, right?
Oh, and the lead programmer had just died, leaving no documentation and only sparse uncommented 6502 assembly printouts.
A communications or programming issue had Dole crawling up my company's arse. Immediately.