On Saturday 17 January 2015 07:59:18 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/01/2015 03:35, Philip Webb wrote: > > 150116 walt wrote: > >> I'd love to see a bar-chart of the age distribution of gentoo devs > >> & compare it to a chart of the people who hang out in this mailing list > >> :)> > > New devs usually seem to describe themselves as > > "I live in a town in Germany with my wife & 2-year-old daughter ; > > I am finishing my MSc in computer science ; > > my hobbies are playing the guitar & riding my mountain bike". > > > > OTOH I suspect most of us here starting computing with punched cards ... > > Can't say I had that pleasure :-) > > I did start with teletype terminals, punched paper tape and a Sinclair > Research Mk14 though!
Mine was ASR33 & KSR35 (even went on the two-day maintenance course for those), 24-bit Ferrranti Argus 500, 8-hole tape, 16KB core store and 2MB disk. That was in closed-loop control of the reactors of an AGR power station! 40 years ago and hardly seems a day. -- Rgds Peter.
