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# Viewdata - 03/1986 - 03/1989

Tandem Analyst / Application Programmer

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**Main Tasks:** Viewdata Program Development on Tandem Pathway system in COBOL and ScreenCOBOL screen design/layout (UI/UX) and screen coding.

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**Working at:** Companies that suppled videotex/viewdata to the travel industry and banks

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**Style:**

[![videotex screen](https://web-candy.com/_nuxt/viewdata.B_DIkPg1.jpg)](https://web-candy.com/work/banking)

**Cars:** Pick up Trucks for personal use were still unusual at this time, The Toyota Hilux, remarkably simular to the Back to the Future Hilux of 1985.

![Toyota Hilux 1985](https://web-candy.com/_nuxt/hi-lux.CXCko9Ll.jpg)

**Music:** Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel · 1986

1986

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