On Saturday 21 July 2018 11:42:31 Richard Owlett wrote: > When I'm "ignorant" and know it, I refer to myself as a "newbie". > My first contact with Linux was when Squeeze was just introduced. > I've been around computers for a while [remember 12AX7 based CPU's?].
No, but I recall seeing, in Iowa City in the very early 1950's, a bit of a monster that had 12,000 12AU7's in it. Used at the time to grade the Iowa tests, the same one I had taken in school and got a quite high score on. They had rigged a Harris Stream fed printing press with a photocell at every mark location on the paper and were calculating the scores from that. > As a BSEE student 50+ years ago I took an introductory programming > course. Later I programmed in 8080 assembler - at the time we were > moving to 8085. As a consumer I ended up in the M$ land. I started with the rca 1802. Still an interesting architecture, one that was able to function in several rads a minute of atomic radiation. But I tried the z-80, found it wanting, then the 6809 which put me firmly on a unix like path, and to this day I still don't have a winders box on the premises. Quite a few linux machines though. And I'm still a new bee... But a fading one due to the age of the wet ram now. > So, how would this group have me to refer to myself without claiming > competency I just *DO NOT* have? > > P.S. I've saved ~6 years of useful posts from this group. I've been > trying to figure out how to organize it in order to create a QWSBFA > rather than a FAQ. QWSBFA=="Questions Which Should Be Frequently > Asked" ;/ That sounds like a heck of a usefull project. > OWL ducks fer cover ;} If you find a good cover, see if there's room for me too. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
