I don't recall the total numbers for Class of '92 or '93, but I would guestimate that around 5K may have eventually graduated. They usually only jam 300 at a time in a classroom for things like Freshman Chemistry, or maybe 80 in the Business classes. "Any questions? We don't have time, we have to get through the material." Say that with a heavy German accent and that was my Chemistry professor. Always talking about how they did things back in Germany "before the war." Then he got caught masturbating in the school swimming pool and they moved him off teaching for the rest of that semester and back to his lab, where he wanted to be anyway.

Yeah, Ben, most people spell COBOLSUX incorrectly. I wonder if Fowler is still there. As long as he had a pulse COBOLSUX would be the primary thing taught in BANA. I remember one time someone wrote on the chalkboard at the side of the COBOLSUX classroom that announcements were written on "Meeting this Thursday, 2PM of the ACC (Anti COBOL Club). Special guest speak this week, Direct from Hell, Grace Hopper." It was up there for over a week before people noticed it. Fowler blew an entire lecture period throwing a fit over disrespecting Admiral Hopper.

There was a network course. I took it one of my last semesters when I was taking about 29 hours of courses. It was a waste of time and one of the 4 B's I received in undergraduate school. 2 of the others were in Organic Chemistry.

 

LMAO!!! I wish I could have seen that! That's wrong and hilarious at the same time!

I first took COBOL at Baylor and guess whose book we used? Fowler's! For some odd reason I still had it when I xfered to TAMU and then got to meet the man behind the book while in his class. Hopefully he's long since retired and not subjecting new undergrads to 2 full semesters of that tripe.

 

[quote=grbrown;7745998]In one class?! That's rather a lot to squeeze into one classroom, let alone a photo! [/quote

Haven't you heard, Graham? They do everything BIG in Texas!
COBOL was dying out in 1986 when I was at Control Data Inst., though, of course, they still taught it!

 

SAP is a flavor of COBOLSUX, with some object oriented stuff thrown in. I don't think they'll ever get rid of it.

 

SAP is considered an upgrade from the crap we use at work (BPCS). I never really got into the programming, when I was certified in 1986, I could get entry level pay of around 19k but I was making 29k in the job I am still at. Young kid at home equals yuk job!

 

Ha ha, that's phunny, Jeff. We use BPCS here. BPCS was responsible for wiping out the whole top level of management from the President to the senior VP level. They had CIMPRO, built on 70's technology, and wanted to "upgrade" to BPCS, built on 60's technology. The CIO at the time got the job because he used to be a sales guy for IBM. Funny thing, but all problems were solved by something that IBM sold. So, he convinced them that BPCS was what they needed because it had all these really cool canned reports, instead of spending maybe 250K on writing the reports in CIMPRO and despite the fact that the company they bought BPCS from had as their #1 seller "Tools to migrate away from BPCS." 5 years and probably $50 million later, BPCS is implemented. Oh, and because it was so difficult to do right, when they (consultants) implemented it they turned all the database relational safties off. Five years after that, it still sucks. Now they think they want SAP.

 

BPCSSUX is the corrected elongated spelling! I do collateral purchasing using it (in addition to my duties as equipment maintenance supervisor) and switching between modern email and spreadsheets to that old c-sucker is like diriving a BMW then jumping on an old Case tractor. I still catch myself trying to use a mouse! funny stuff!

 

Oh yeah, Ben, I also had a full beard back then. I kinda grew it as a "F you" to the entire school experience. And when I was a senior, I wore a spur on one of my Harley engineer boots during special days, like elephant walk day. If we had any classes, I think you'd-a remembered me.

Fowler would change the correct answer on his exams. If you got a copy of the previous semester's exam, 1 or 2 of the questions would be the same, but this semester C was correct, where as last semester it was B. These were deliberately vague questions and answers, and either could be considered correct. It was his book, after all. I called him on one of these and he said, yeah, it's "CS", but that's the way it is. The next exam (which I also had a copy of the previous semester's on) I recognized one of these vague questions, knew the previous answer was B, and picked the other answer. I got a 100 on that one. I think it pissed him off.

 

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