>>I was reading and writing at age three The Mozart of Computer Science! ;-)
I think I beat you all here: I started learning computers and programming in 68. If I remember well, it was on an IBM 1620 or so. Then I moved to a CDC 3300 and wrote my first Fortran program to find all solutions of the "8 queens on a chess board". Starting in 70 I worked on a CDC 1700 and we designed the first computer film animation system at the University of Montreal. I remember this computer had 56k memory (16 bits !) and no hardware floating point. (Though some programmers who were still sucking their Pablum at that time are claiming nowadays that they are "re-using code" ;-)) The clock was rated at about 0,7 Mhz. We had two hard disks, each one as big as a washing machine and containing about 4 Meg. I remember also than a 4k memory module was about 1 cu.f. and cost about $4000 to rent BY MONTH! ;-) The computer I'm writing this message is about 4300 times faster, has about 10000 times more memory, has about 15000 times more disk space and needs 800 times less space. -- _______________________________________ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:197679 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
