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VolStrom said:
Ugh. Did you ever try and use a Siemens S5 PLC? It was akin to the microprocessor trainers I used to learn on. LDA xxh, LDB xxH, ADD or something to that effect. It was a horrendous POS.
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Dear Lord that looks like assembler. No never used them I was a lowly intern/co-op. I was normally the Samsonite Gorilla test on new products.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Dear Lord that looks like assembler. No never used them I was a lowly intern/co-op. I was normally the Samsonite Gorilla test on new products.
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Speaking of assembly language. My first task as a newbie just out of college was learning to code in assembly language in a home-grown operating system on DEC PDP8 machines for Dow Chemical in Plaquemine, LA. Had my own machine in a 2-man trailer for developing software for process monitoring and control. Took me 18 months to finagle a transfer out of the systems group into a process engineer position making petrochemicals. The good old days, 1976 when I started there.
 
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RavinDave said:
Speaking of assembly language. My first task as a newbie just out of college was learning to code in assembly language in a home-grown operating system on DEC PDP8 machines for Dow Chemical in Plaquemine, LA. Had my own machine in a 2-man trailer for developing software for process monitoring and control. Took me 18 months to finagle a transfer out of the systems group into a process engineer position making petrochemicals. The good old days, 1976 when I started there.
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A DEC PDP8! They came with a complementary abacus ! 😂
 
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VolStrom said:
Ugh. Did you ever try and use a Siemens S5 PLC? It was akin to the microprocessor trainers I used to learn on. LDA xxh, LDB xxH, ADD or something to that effect. It was a horrendous POS.
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My last engineering job was with a Siemens nuclear company. Not sure that all US Siemens companies did it the same, but this one bought up US companies and patched them together, and filled some upper level positions from German operations. The execs from companies incorporated would stab anybody and everybody in the back to gain strategic positions and undercut everybody else, and the German management brought in "this is how we do it" philosophy about a lot of stuff. Siemens is a good company, but the atmosphere in the company I worked for was probably the worst I've ever seen. One of my bigger problems had to do with documentation for equipment we sold and stuff like German schematics being absolutely foreign and unacceptable to US purchasers, and basically a knife fight between German engineers, the few employees we had, and some contracted programmers - absolute nightmare.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Dear Lord that looks like assembler. No never used them I was a lowly intern/co-op. I was normally the Samsonite Gorilla test on new products.
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Assembler? I'm not familiar with that. I have been lucky to have only worked with Omron and Allen Bradley PLC's. The Omron CJ platform is one of the most user friendly PLC platforms out there. They keep trying to phase them out but everyone keeps buying them. However, I don't like their newer, upscale NJ stuff.
 
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AM64 said:
I guess if you don't care that your pilot is a bus driver or similar it should work. Petey is one of those fools who doesn't know what he doesn't know, and that includes the fact that hiring isn't just about bodies. Of course, Petey is a bit mixed up about bodies anyway.
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Having to drive from DC to NY must of messed with his milk production.
 
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norrislakevol said:
Assembler? I'm not familiar with that. I have been lucky to have only worked with Omron and Allen Bradley PLC's. The Omron CJ platform is one of the most user friendly PLC platforms out there. They keep trying to phase them out but everyone keeps buying them. However, I don't like their newer, upscale NJ stuff.
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Assembly language. The “native” lowest level programming language of any microcontroller or microprocessor. It wasn’t a PLC reference. And I haven’t been hands on with a PLC since around 1987.
 
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0nelilreb said:
Just to remind everyone that these people and their agendas are still very much in control of our government today …. “ This liberal would SOCIALIZE , umm.. ummm.. umm.. umm , take over the oil companies “ .
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so the cali-commie wants to control the means of production!

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0nelilreb said:
Just to remind everyone that these people and their agendas are still very much in control of our government today …. “
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I'm sure if one goes back 13 years one can dig up some interesting quotes from people working in oil about making money. From what should we conclude from that?
 
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Velo Vol said:
I'm sure if one goes back 13 years one can dig up some interesting quotes from people working in oil about making money. From what should we conclude from that?
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That a publicly traded company has one job. To return share holder value. Governments job isn't what Maxine or Joe were talking about. How anyone can watch that, and not throw a flag, is beyond me.
 
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Velo Vol said:
I'm sure if one goes back 13 years one can dig up some interesting quotes from people working in oil about making money. From what should we conclude from that?
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Oh I don’t know ..how about that our government officials that are elected in a capitalist system shouldn’t be pushing a socialist agenda , because all socialist systems eventually break down into a dictatorship ?
 
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Velo Vol said:
I'm sure if one goes back 13 years one can dig up some interesting quotes from people working in oil about making money. From what should we conclude from that?
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It’s probably just me and my disdain for the progressive left but , I’m starting see people lob up softball posts to the plate just dripping in gravy here lately . Those radical politicians arent giving ya much to work with now huh ?
 
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Some decent deals if you’re looking to save some and can handle a credit card.

Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst at Bankrate.com, recommends the Sam’s Club Mastercard, which provides 5% cash back on gasoline purchased almost anywhere. The card is capped at $6,000 a year, or a saving of 25 cents a gallon, assuming a $5-a-gallon price. He also suggests the Costco Anywhere Visa card, which gives 4% cash back on gasoline purchased almost anywhere, capped at $7,000 a year. Using the card saves 20 cents on a $5 gallon.
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