How old are you (no lying now)

[i_am_dave]

jdizzy40,
Hang in there man. One thing I learned from my sister who spent the last 25 of her brief 39 years fighting kidney disease is never to give up.
42 is too young to go...

[Goku]

i'm 15 here and started reading this site when i was 14.

[mikel]

I may be a "fossil" at 53, but considering the alternative....I'M HAPPY!!!

mikel

[fritzi93]

Pushing retirement, I'm not inclined to be any more specific. JFK? How about the Bay of Pigs? Francis Gary Powers? I Like Ike? Aw, skip it, I forgot what the point was.

[tigerman8u]

big five oh here
got my 1st computer in 86 ( 1986 just to keep the record straight )
commodore colt, man that thing ran like a horse LOL

[harrymj3]

62, I think. Er, what was that question again?

[wonderuss]

29 on the 24th of this month and i live in sunny West Yorkshire U.K.

[Will Hay]

29 on the 24th of this month and i live in sunny West Yorkshire U.K.

Strange, because...

I'll be 33 on the 20th of this month and I live in sunny West Yorkshire, U.K.
Will

[vettesea]

Have hit the big 30, but still have the dreams and thoughts of a 21 year old. Unfortunately the girls see the body of a 30 year old, albeit a young 30 I like to think!!

[tompika]

I'll be 33 on the 20th of this month

Same here, mate...

[tgpo]

I love how this thread has kept going. I'm now 20 going on 5

[moviewatcher666]

43 years young here!!

I learned to program COBOL on an HP mainframe that was hooked up to a classroom filled with dumb termainals. The year I graduated, the college spent about $3000 per computer on the first "PCs" (circa 1981). They had monochrome screens, 64K of memory and dual 8" floppy disks for storage. We learned Peachtree accounting on these computers.

Ahhhh, those were the days, man!

[wolfe805]

16 here, just got a burner a week ago and ive already mastered it very much to back up all of my vcds, svcds, dvds and such,,, thanks to your forums... great job guys

[shaqattaq]

an old-looking 33 here. still got the hair, but the color reminds me of leslie nielson or sparky anderson.

[tb33]

37 8)

[Treebeard]

26 & bday next month

i thought i replied to this thread along time ago but couldnt find my post.

[Ripper2860]

44 here !!

And the XT was a 4.77Mhz 8088, while the Compaq Deskpro ran a spritely 8086 at 7MHz (the AT&T 6300 ran an 8086 at 8.77MHz). Both kicked the -- XT's butt !! The AT&T gave the PC/AT (80286) a good run for the money !!

I remember selling a DP with 256K of RAM a 10MB HDD, 14" CGA (320x200x16) display and an 80 column Epson FX-80 Dot Matrix Printer, Compaq DOS 2.11, and PFS Write, PFS File and PFS Plan for approx $10,000.00 dollars.

And for the old timers -- It took forever to load all of the DIP 8K memory modules in the 9 chip 64K banks (1 extra for parity) -- and there was always 1 with a friggin leg' folded under, so you had to remove them one at a time to find the bastard. Those were the days -- not !!

[budz]

42 old years

[indolikaa]

32.


Our first computer system in the home was the complete Apple IIc package minus the 'portable' LCD screen. My mom swears she paid $5000 for the system in 1985.

It is on and running as we speak. AppleWorks might be the greatest program ever written.

[johns0]

45 here,did you know you cant make folders named con on windows?I think its cause it would cause internal conflicts of massives proportions.

[Craig Tucker]

did you know you cant make folders named con on windows?

Yes

[nexus123]

22 on the 19th here

[lacywest]

52 here and Happy Birthday Mr. Twister !!!!

Hey Boldego ... Lacywest is 51 ... and still young looking ... take Vitamins.

And ... Every Saturday ... I get laid ... last Saturday ... hmmm ... I got my rocks off ... hmmm 3 times ... at least twice ... and mini 3rd one.

It was the erotica of having a Mini DV camera recording it all ... heh heh.

[Will Hay]

And ... Every Saturday ... I get laid ... last Saturday ... hmmm ... I got my rocks off ... hmmm 3 times ... at least twice ... and mini 3rd one.

It was the erotica of having a Mini DV camera recording it all ... heh heh.

Please, stop it, I'll be eating shortly.
Will

[Schmendrick]

51 -

started using computers 31 years back with paper punch cards and fortran on an IBM 370 then
Control Data Corp Cyber 73/76 with CRT-terminals in 1973 then
DEC PDP 11/40, 11/04, 11/34, 11/44 with RT-11 and RSX-11M (stable multitasking, multiuser OS with 256kB to 1MB RAM) then
KIM-1 of MOS-Technology later Commodore (6502 CPU, 1 Mhz, 1 kB RAM, 2kB ROM Teletype-20 mA current loop interface) first used for data acquisition from digital voltmeter to produce a punched paper tape on the teletype which was used on the PDP 11-system for data evaluation with fortran programs. The program on this system was < 1kB machine language code

Later extended to interpreter basic from tape sold from a new unknown company called "Microsoft Corp." (1977/8)

Then IBM PC, 4.77 Mhz: 1 5 1/4 inch floppy 64 kB (1983)
then IBM PC/AT 286 8 Mhz
then noname 386SX, 16 Mhz / Windows 3.1
then noname 486DX, 33 Mhz /Win 3.1-WIN95SE
then ACER Pentium 120 Mhz / WIN95SE (Laptop)
then Pentium III 600 Mhz / Win98SE-WIN2000Prof (still in use)
then Maxdata Pentium III 700 Mhz / WIN98SE-WIN200Prof (Laptop still in use)
then Athlon 1200 Mhz / WIN98SE-WIN2000Prof (still in use by my boys)
at last Pentium 4 2660 Mhz / WinXPHome

I appologize if this is boring for others.

CU

Schmendrick

[offline]

@ Schmendrick:

I'm 36 but I've worked on a PDP8 series mini, no crt just punch
and, later, a few teletypes.

1st home comp was hand built (lasted 3 days and caught fire)
2nd was a borrowed ZX prototype (1 k of memory)
3rd was a borrowed Tandy TRS-80
" " " " .. PET/ATARI 2400/BBC / Vic 20 /C64

Then came the APPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My parents bought me an Apple WOW! 6502 processer at 1.7Mhz !!!
Apple II europlus, 16k native + 16 k upgrade, 360k floppy,
200 baud Modem (Acoustic coupler type).

[indolikaa]

I appologize if this is boring for others.

Hardly!

I love hearing about the older machines.

[lacywest]

And ... Every Saturday ... I get laid ... last Saturday ... hmmm ... I got my rocks off ... hmmm 3 times ... at least twice ... and mini 3rd one.

It was the erotica of having a Mini DV camera recording it all ... heh heh.

Please, stop it, I'll be eating shortly.
Will

What can I say ... I'm a horny dude ... Sex is one of my most favorite sports.

[Matteo693]

I'm 69.

[tgpo]

I'm 69.

Nice