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*Message sent from a system outside of UConn.* Hi Meghan, A fun question indeed, and an amble down Memory Lane... I began working with workstation ARC/INFO, with coverages, as a GIS Intern for the Westchester County Planning Department, in June, 1990. Westchester County was one of the earliest adopters of ESRI GIS, on the East Coast, by a local/regional government. I worked for Sam Wear, who recently retired(? - I think??). I was there until January 2002, when I took my present job in Greenwich, CT. We worked on IBM RISC RS-6000 Workstations, in the AIX (IBM Unix) operating system. Back then, the Arc/Info programming language was AML - Arc Macro Language. Even getting a map off an (electrostatic?) plotter, involved some command-line language in ArcPlot. We also got involved with ArcView/Windows, pretty early on, but it was tough "toggling" between the two environments. While PC Arc/Info - ArcView became easier to work with than the workstation platform, there were definitely teething pains. I still have a stack of notebooks, basically useless, except for a laugh, on "how-to" accomplish various tasks. Long time ago, for sure, and I still have a ways to go, until retirement!! Cheers, Greg Greg Sullivan, MS, GISP GIS Coordinator, Town of Greenwich 101 Field Point Road, Rm G01 Greenwich, CT 06830 tel: 203-622-7737 fax: 203-629-6920 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> From: Unmoderated discussion list for Connecticut GIS Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cutler, Rebecca Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2020 1:03 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CTGIS-L] For the old timers [EXTERNAL] *Message sent from a system outside of UConn.* Fun question, but definitely shows my age! I first began using ARC/INFO around 1991 in a consulting firm in Virginia. It was command line driven (no windows). We had to write code using ARC Macro Language to generate maps. It was fun but also frustrating; especially if you became stuck in an endless loop! 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Not the engineer or zoning officer who obtained GIS skills, but the earliest positions where the job role was just to know GIS software as a desktop product? I was hired as a GIS intern in 2003 so I'm aging myself here but there were already people working in the field and there were consulting firms that existed to support them. 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This began the process of moving GIS from the research department into the business environment." ArcView 1.0 was released in 1991 and shapefiles weren't a thing until ArcView 2. So, in CT, where did it begin? [cid:[log in to unmask]] Meghan C. 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