Colin Barker and Janice McGinn look back at the early days of programming and the salaries that seem, by today's standards, to have lost a nought
Back in 1973, an analyst/programmer could expect to earn #4,000 a year. The main programming language used in business was Cobol and those working on IBM systems might be using Assembler or PL/1. ...
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