On Tue, Nov 04, 2003, Bruce Marshall wrote: >On Tuesday 04 November 2003 21:16 pm, Chong Yu Meng wrote: >> Bruce Marshall wrote: >> >Well gee... I guess at 65 and having bought from Sun, I feel >> > 2.66666666 times better than you do... :-) >> >> That's amazing ! I thought most of the people on this list were in >> their 30's, because you guys sound so young ! I'm probably the >> youngest here, I expect (I'm 34). But I am also very aware of time >> being in short supply , but money is also one of my main worries! > >I don't think age is a big issue with computers... I've been working >with them for 42 years... might as well keep on going... :-) > >"My first computer had its only memory on a drum"....
Sounds like either a Bendix G-15 or something from Univac. One thing that amazed me was walking into the computer room at the Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, to find not only a Burroughs B-3800, the same type of main frame I managed for years, but an IBM 026 keypunch still in use. This was in 1995! The last time I had to use an 026 was in 1967 or thereabouts. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.'' Will Rogers _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
