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Flashback to the mid-1970s, when this pilot fish is a clerk at a company where IT is called Computer Services, all the software is written in mainframe PL/I -- and the VP of Real Estate wants a regularly updated list of leaseholders in alphabetical order.
"The names were from paper forms which had only one field for leaseholder name," says fish. "I could see the futility of continuing to reorder the data by hand and have someone type a list which would almost certainly be out of date by the time the typist finished.
"I made a request to Computer Services for a way the typist could enter the data on the brand new mainframe terminal that HR had put in our office, and have the data stored and printed.
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