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Man, I truly feel old, I'm 27 years old, I remember the days of the commador 128....That's when I first started prgram, and hitting the BBS before the internet days. When you had to call each computer seperate. You younger guys have it lucky. I been out of computering for the past 4 years. ANd now I just confused with linux and all the new things of windows xp.....I started when the baud rate was 300, and then we switched to 1200 and we thought we were speeding then.......the old days.....
ANYONE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE DAYS OF ENIAC? Tee-Hee-Hee-Hee....
Yes Soulreaver I also remeber working for Burroghs in their literature distribution facility and had to deliver 1 inch tape reels at 20 inch or so diameter for there server updates to a computer Clean Room that was the size of 2 city blocks to house a computer system that had less processor power than todays laptops...I had forgotton this fact until now...thank you for making me feel even more smithsonian...lol
I know im just a young newbie at 14 but I am trying to teach myself some programming(C++, Pearl etc. etc.) and thought that here might be a good place to ask questions since nobody seems to get flamed too much and its such a fountain of knowledge...I've really got to quit booting in windows...its a bad habit you know? Maybe I should just remove windows completely so I'm forced to use linux.
Computers that big with no internet, tisk tisk, and they cost 100 times more back then than new computers today eheheh, need public storage to use it :P
I'll be 25 next month (august).
I was born a genius in 1952. My motto is:
Some people were born stupid, and others have to work at it
I have had a lot of practice, but Gandalf, I am not.
:cool:
15 in august :\ cant wait to drive
lol I feel like a little kid, and am, but watcha going to do?
I am 27, and started with an Amiga 500 in high school then bought a Tandy 386 with a 50 meg HDD, sound blaster 16, and tons of DOS games... I did some really basic programming in QBasic by messing with GORILLAS.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS to learn how to program the standard diviance in the form of Euler's equaton using Simpson's rule (I'll have to dig around for that gem in my disks and maybe post it here hee hee). Then after that, I did not use a computer again until I got married in 1998 and that's when I had to learn all over again using Win95 on an over-priced 133MHz box...
Damn I feel so old with so much to learn!
22 Here...
God, it hurts me to say this. I'm 56 *sob* Got my first computer in 1992, a V-Tech with 16mhz processor 2MB RAM, and a 40MB hard drive, DOS 5 and Windows 3.
I remember the 1st Super Bowl, although I was in Vietnam and missed seeing or hearing it. Well, got to get to my walker and shuffle to the table for supper of baby food. Too old any more for the real thing.
damn i quess i'm old too. i started on a commador 64. they started teaching us BASIC on trash 80's in school. i really didnt think 30 was old hmmmm
I remember getting computer gizzette and entering programs from the back of the mags, and used a tape recorder...i remember on the commador.
Load"pacman",8,1
then press start on the tape....
:dunce:
LOL i remember using the tape recorder. then i went and cut alot of grass and bought the newest and greatest 1541 5 1/2" floppy drive and a vic 20 dot matrix printer
25 here I still remmeber my first "puter " was an Atari with a tape recorder, went to play outside come back in an hour and maybe i you were lucky the game was ready tu run, them i got an Apple I think was a IIc or something with the 5 1/4" floppy drive no hdd, got tons of Floppies, them 286, 386, bla bla bla...God!! I feel old but still learning.. :)
I'm only 21 but I got my first computer back in 1985 it was was a commador 64. I used to get on bbs's to get the newest games heh those were the days.
-Ezekiel
21....
Sometimes I feel 17, sometimes I feel 30... (depends how I spend my money...)
(bills... 30, games... 17 w00t!)
Age may seem like something, yet it's the maturity of our minds that count...
:D i thought i was the coolest in the commador club when I had two 1541's for my 128...and then went 1200 baud....ABout the bbs...man during times at night...it will take me hours to try to log in, and a few of them had a few nodes, so other people would be at the same site, but only they few had them. Download a game, roughly two hours.........
::pacman
i feel sorry for all of you old people :D i wish id been around for the commador 64 but nooo, my first computer had to have DOS 2.1 and wishbringer was the best game there was, the good old YELLOW and black 14in. monitor, those were the days.
My first puter in 1986 a C64 and later 1998 or 1990 a 286 that was such a leap for me...
well you can guess my age... 22 !
22 baby...How retro hip is this...I downloaded a Commodore64 EMULATOR to play old interactive fiction games that run on them!
I'm in top range today 26 votes..wheres another?
getting old am 21
/me is 16
Ugh. I wish i was about 5 again! Could go back and do it all again, knowing what I know now... It'd be so much better the second time around. Ah well, nevermind.
Im 18, but I carry an old soul :D
Hello. I am 27 and will be 28 in October. And my next few birthdays I thank I will stay 28. Don't want to get too old too fast.
Zuriel