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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/27/2013 01:43 PM, Gavin Flower
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/09/13 05:18, Clyde E. Kunkel
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<blockquote cite="mid:5245BDE4.4050507@verizon.net" type="cite">On
09/27/2013 01:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: <br>
<blockquote type="cite">On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 22:06 +1200, Gavin
Flower wrote: <br>
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I do find the 'who's been <br>
<blockquote type="cite">using computers longer?' competitions
that seem to be ensuing on all <br>
sorts of lists lately a bit tiresome :) <br>
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Why tiresome? It is a bit interesting. Way better than some of
the vitriol showing up on the lists. I remember programming a
RemRand steel drum memory computer using a teletype and punched
paper tape. I also remember seeing a U-2 in use running a
single application (civilian payroll) at a Navy facility. <br>
<br>
None used Fedora. <br>
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<font size="-1">Yes,it great to find not everyone here is a
"Johny-Come<font size="-1">-La</font>tel<font size="-1">y</font>"</font>!
:-)<br>
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Some people start programming young these days! I'm coaching an
11 year old in Java, he has his own Linux box. He got into Java
by himself when he was 10, despite neither of his parents being in
IT. His mother is a friend of my wife's, and he suddenly phoned
up in February asking if I could help him. I have introduced him
to PostgreSQL & SQL, and later I think I will also get him
into C and other languages. I was 18 before I had a chance to
write programs - I think he will better than I ever was, before he
is 18!<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Gavin<br>
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First computer I ever laid eyes on was the duplex SAGE computer at
Truax Field in Madison.<br>
An impressive beast indeed it was.<br>
<br>
First computer I ever programmed was in the fall of 1962. We
submitted our little Fortran programs<br>
on coding sheets and gout our output (usually an abend) a few days
later.<br>
<br>
First computer I ever laid hands on was an IBM 1620. First computer
I programmed in assembly<br>
was a 4000 character IBM 1401 after my app was kiched off the 1620.
<br>
<br>
First computer I ever interfaced was a PDP-8s at Tektronix, about
1969.<br>
<br>
First computer I designed was a 6800 based comms processor. I
designed and programmed<br>
its hardware development system as well.<br>
<br>
And that wasn't the end of it.<br>
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