It was papers, pencils, erasers all the time. There was a Electronic Data Processing center (EDP) and a big machine called ICIM 6000 with all those punch card systems etc. I just got curious and enrolled myself with some computer training institute – Bangalore Institute Of Computer Application (BICA) in Malleswaram. I don’t know if that exists today! I learn something about COBOL and started writing programs. My favorite was to write an allocation program considering the requirement, Inventory, material in pipeline (Purchase Indent, Purchase Order, Goods-Inwards) and then consumption. Wrote some code and got the punch cards, fed to the computer, only to wait for two days to see any result. And then we find the bug, redo the program, get the punch cards again and re-run. And after 4-5 attempts, I surrendered and prayed god to make programming easier.
God seems to have heard my prayers a bit late, but did gave us plat form in the guise of ICIM Quattro where we can connect 4 computers as a ‘local area network’. It allowed us to work of that new DBase database software.
We learn programming in DBase and later FoxPro. I did lot of programming and encouraged my sub-ordinates to use computers and some even became expert programmers. Can I ever forget P.Chandrasekhar -PC ( now in Honeywell, Bangalore), Ravindran and Nanda Kumar Kamat ( still at BHEL, Bangalore)
We used to do the Material planning work during office hours and tried our hand at computerization in the evenings. Slowly and steadily we developed different application.
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