Summer Olympic Job

I remember the Summer Olympics of 1976 very well since I got paid while watching the athletes compete. 

I was fortunate enough to receive an internship (the first awarded in Cincinnati) at Accenture.  There were three of us from Miami University that were assigned to a internal project to convert MACPAC (Accenture's manufacturing MRP package) from System 3 RPG to the IBM 360 environment.  The work involved inserting BAL subroutines for all the read and write commands in every program - a very mundane and redundant task. 

Since computer time was scarce, we were allowed on the client (Ilsco/Bardes) computer from 12 noon to 10pm.  Our Manager - G.V. had pity on us when we lamented that we would miss the Summer Olympic games.  So we were allowed to bring in a portable TV while we were key punching the subroutines, compiling and executing the tests. 

What a great Summer Olympic Job.

Memorable names included -  Romania Gymnast Nadia Comaneci; U.S. Decathlon Winner Bruce Jenner; and US Boxers Sugar Ray Leonard and Michael Spinks