Coin Talk Age Census: Please Vote

TRASH80? My old boss once told me that if you needed more than 32k for your program, you were doing it wrong. (BTW, I had nearly 30k worth of names in the program.)

But I started on an UNIVAC9600(?), but they up-graded to an IBM360-60 my sophomore year. Lots of punch cards.

 

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Bring back the 8086 processer I say!

 

You are not supposed to talk to your elders that way!

 

Lots of hanging chads.

 

Do not remember them as being a problem. At least i guarantee they did not affect (effect?) my voting.

 

Wow, I thought the average age would be a little bit higher! I like to see such a broad, diverse group in this wonderful hobby.

 

We just need at least 2 more to vote!

 

I'm 29 in May and I cannot BELIEVE how much this hobby has changed since I first started back in the early 90s! My, I recall being in the tiny minority as a kid, and certainly not many guys and gals my age today in the hobby back in those days.

 

I'm glad to see the full adult category is up to 5!

 

Actually when I moved up to an IBM 1130 with punch cards from an IBM that I had to wire patch for each language step, I was in Heaven! Try to debug a program with 1200 patch cord hanging out of it. Yeah I had one of those old 14" Drives with 5MB per platter. Tracks so far apart I could see the heads move.

Jim.
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Miss?

Do I miss my PDP11?
My Vic~20, C~64~Tandy 200....etc.....Hech. I still love my 4 Amigas!!

Guess not since I still have them.

And Dad still has a Trash 80 Model II....which he still uses.

Extra points for anyone who know why the Winchester HD was called thus. (Even if it was stolen from Dr. Wang)

 

Named after the Winchester 30-30 rifle, even though it's capacity was greater than 30-30 when introduced. OK I'm officially old :smile

 

Actually I am between two slots ... older than 51-60, not yet 61. But I guess most of us are "young enough to use a computer" eh, grasshopper?

 

You WIN extra points

That is the same story I heard years ago, so I guess you win.:hail:

'Course that was a HUGE 30 Megs per side.
Bet you have even "Booted" your computer with toggle switches.

So for Top points~
What species was the first computer "BUG"?

& How old is it?

 

A moth, Harvard University, 1947. Grace Murray Hopper, legendary female computer scientist.

 

I may not be typical, But you have to be a little computer savvy at what
Ever age!

 

Okay, I'm in.
I'M 52

 

My Bad

The term in fact originates not with computer pioneers, but with engineers of a much earlier generation. The almost first example cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is from the Pall Mall Gazette of 11 March 1889:

Mr. Edison, I was informed, had been up the two previous nights discovering 'a bug' in his phonograph - an expression for solving a difficulty, and implying that some imaginary insect has secreted itself inside and is causing all the trouble.

It seems clear from this that the original 'bug', though it was indeed an insect, was in fact imaginary.

It was supposed to be a trick question but you get more than partial credit because I included the word "computer" in the question.

So I have to relinquished credit to Adm. Hopper because she gives credit to having found the 1st "Physical" evidence of having found a "bug" in a "computer"....back when SHE was young. And she DOES give credit to another when they say "First BUG actually found.

 

I can tell you right now that most people are average!

 

Below

Half of us are below average.
And I can prove it.

I also found out "BUGS" and electron connection exchange most likely propagated from telegraph usage but has origins from before Shakespeare.
So Old is as Olde does. So don't bug me.