5 track paper tape ... mumble mumble ... hollerith ... grumble grumble
... punch card ... mumble ... marveled at the technology that allowed
us to encode *lowercase letters*!!!1!! (or 7 track paper tape as it
was known).
Actually I'm only 49 but I started quite young. I've been a paid
programmer
Great to see some other programmers on this list of mature age. I'm
49 and wrote my first line of code in Pascal at the University of
Sydney 30 years ago. It has been a fascinating journey since then and
these days I love programming in Ruby for a living.
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2010/10/12 Edmond Kachale edmond.kach...@baobabhealth.org
I am 3 bytes years old. :-)
I am 3 bytes years old = 3* 8 bits = 24 years.
I wrote the first program in C 5 years ago at the University of Malawi.
Before then, I had never touched a computer (typical of an African child :-)
). I
I got you beat there. I started drawing my early social security
earlier this year. I am 62 and started programming on an IBM 1130 in
'67 or so. All of the programing was on cards. Lots of fun carrying a
box of them around. That machine had a removable disk drive of some
type that
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Norm Scherer normsche...@earthlink.netwrote:
We didn't get to run our own programs, you had to submit them and then
figure out what you did wrong from the output listings.
That is an amount of patience that I think has been lost forever
Norm
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I don't mind admitting I am 54 - I am aiming to keep learning and
developing my skills as long as I can. I am self employed working on
my own, so this forum is a lifeline to keeping in touch with what is
developing and picking up on how to do things better. I always find
it helpful when concepts
pepe wrote in post #949294:
Didn't you used to go out with that lady...? What's her name...? Oh
yes! Elizabeth Taylor? I don't think you're 21!
I'm working on finding a chick with that name :)
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I'm 54. Provable the eldest one in this mailing list.
Why do you care about age?
On 10月11日, 午後11:03, Richard Burton li...@ruby-forum.com wrote:
Just curious how old we all are? Not that it really matters but I was
just wondering.
To get the ball rolling, I'm 21.
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On 12 October 2010 10:21, smajima susumu.maj...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I'm 54. Provable the eldest one in this mailing list.
Why do you care about age?
I think my 61 beats that. I wrote my first code 42 years ago
(Elliott 803, paper tape input, 1kHz cycle time (yes, kHz)). I expect
there are
David Kahn wrote in post #947370:
So if you dropped the box and they got out of order
That's why any serious programmer back in those days (not that I would
know personally of anything like that) carried colored markers to mark
stripes diagonally across the top of the batched deck...
Didn't you used to go out with that lady...? What's her name...? Oh
yes! Elizabeth Taylor? I don't think you're 21!
I'm working on finding a chick with that name :)
Good luck with that one! It would be too funny if you did. :)
Almost 45 and (hopefully) keeping counting.
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twenty five years... six months ago i started in Rails world... i am a new
developer... i am happy now (PHP and Java was a wrong way for me for seven
years)
Ruby + Rails + Jquery is very powefull for me
2010/10/12 pepe p...@betterrpg.com
Didn't you used to go out with that lady...? What's
I'm 52.
You can get a little more about me here: http://www.marcric.com/
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On Oct 11, 11:03 am, Richard Burton li...@ruby-forum.com wrote:
Just curious how
This is a really cool thread. Really, I had the impression that everyone
here was in there 20's and boy/girl geniuses. I feel less of an outlier.
I read about a study that managers overestimate the salaries of their peers
and those managers below them and underestimate the salary of peers above.
I'm 46. My first (and only formal) CS course was conducted using
teletypes and a mainframe in Canada, while I was in Phoenix AZ: the
McGill University System for Interactive Computing, or MUSIC, which
taught us BASIC.
There was a card reader in the building, but I never used it for
Just turned 24
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Walter Lee Davis wa...@wdstudio.comwrote:
I'm 46. My first (and only formal) CS course was conducted using teletypes
and a mainframe in Canada, while I was in Phoenix AZ: the McGill
I am 3 bytes years old. :-)
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I'm 54. Provable the eldest one in this mailing list.
Why do you care about age?
I think my 61 beats that. I wrote my first code 42 years ago
(Elliott 803, paper tape input, 1kHz cycle time (yes, kHz)). I expect
there are older still. I care about age because at some point my
On Oct 12, 2010, at 6:44 AM, David Kahn wrote:
This is a really cool thread. Really, I had the impression that everyone here
was in there 20's and boy/girl geniuses. I feel less of an outlier.
Not all of us. It is interesting for sure!
For the record... I'm 36. First computer was a
Richard Burton wrote:
Just curious how old we all are? Not that it really matters but I was
just wondering.
Why do you ask?
To get the ball rolling, I'm 21.
I'm young enough to have lots of energy, optimism, and ambition, and old
enough to have learned from lots of mistakes. :)
Best,
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yeah, I got a paper route in 4th grade to buy a Vic 20 with 8k and learn
Basic. Which is about the extent of my formal training :)
So you startet with the successor of my first computer :
a Commodore PET 2001 ...
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On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, KlausG
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yeah, I got a paper route in 4th grade to buy a Vic 20 with 8k and learn
Basic. Which is about the extent of my formal training :)
So you startet with the successor of my first computer :
a Commodore PET
By the time this posts it will be my birthday and I'll be 45. Been in IT
for 27 years. Started out on mainframes (IBM radiator cooled 3090) and
mini's (DEC Vax).
Wrote a program to get rid of Avon's last Hollerith punch card reader in
1990. (Yeah, they were a little late).
haha
Gary.
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Didn't you used to go out with that lady...? What's her name...? Oh
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On Oct 11, 10:03 am, Richard Burton li...@ruby-forum.com wrote:
Just curious how old we all are? Not that it really matters but I was
just wondering.
To get the ball rolling,
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