How old are you people??

[Gennady Oster]

Congratulations ! BTW, what computer did you start from? Abacus like me? Regards, Gennady

[Dave Carkeet]

Im 41 but admit to 32 in smoky bars after 1 a.m. I remember entering the bootstrap on the old PDP7 with the accumulator switches on the front because the bloody paper tape reader never worked Dave Carkeet, Santiago, Chile

[Luis Alonso Ramos]

You guys are old!!! I learned programming when I was 10 with QuickBasic in a CompuAdd 16MHz 386 with 40 MB of hard disk space (wow!! that was big!!). -- LuisR -------- Luis Alonso Ramos Chihuahua, Mexico www.luisalonsoramos.com

[Steve Maier]

Not old..... just experienced. :) Steve Maier, MCSD

[Lost User]

A well seasoned 48 ! Steven J. Ackerman, Consultant ACS, Sarasota, FL http://www.acscontrol.com steve@acscontrol.com sja@gte.net

[PJ Arends]

A very young 36. :-D --- Multitasking: Screwing up several things at once.

[Ghazi H Wadi]

30, Thanks for the reality check...:) Cheers Alfadhly. It is Illogical to define an inventor by his invention

[James R Twine]

First line from my GeekCode: GCS d- s+:+ a28 C++++$ UL+++>++++ P+ t+++ 5++ X+++ tv+ -=- James.

[Jack Allen]

Thank you! I started with a Commodore 64. It had a cassette tape drive for storage and I used an old TV for a monitor. My first "real" programs were done in dBase on those old green-screen, dual floppy drive, suitcase sized Compaq "portable" PCs. Ah, those were the days... Jack

[Stan Shannon]

I started on the Commodore 64 also, great little machine. In fact, last Christmas I went to buy a Nintendo 64 game as a present and absent mindedly asked for the "Commodore 64" section. The guy didn't have a clue...

[James Johnson]

I'm 20 and just finishing up my 2nd year of uni out of 5... i decided it would be best to take it easy so i could concentrate on what was important, windows programming :) James (the other James Johnson) There are two secrets to success. 1) Never tell anyone everything you know.

[Gennady Oster]

And I started (without jokes) on the first Russian computer "Ural 1" - lamp monster making 100 ips (it's not the mistake, not Mips !). It's reader worked with the punched film tape, agglutinated in endless loop (like Mobius band), and my first program (calculating e in x power by means of Taylor series) was written in codes. And nevertheless, you're absolutely right - those were the days ! Regards, Gennady

[Ben Burnett]

22, I cant really remember when I started to code, my parents always had some sort of machine ling around... I remember a TSR-80, Vic 20, Tandy 1000... not a single one ever had a hard drive!! even my first 386 did not have a HD! I just finished my first year of uni, sold my (small) company last year so I hope I’ll be able to get through school dept free... as long as I quit buying so much beer ;) Have a good one, -Ben "Its funny when you stop doing things not because they’re wrong, but because you might get caught." - Unknown

[Jon Sagara]

23 here... got 2 more quarters of school. Graduating in December. :cool: Jon Sagara "When I was fourteen, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the past seven years." -- Mark Twain

[Phil Boyd]

33 - and getting younger by.... Erh - what was the question again?;) Phil Boyd MCP "I took the road less traveled..."

[Paper Sun]

33 and it's getting worse and worse every day... X| We're fightin' for the gods of war but what the hell we fightin' for ? (Def Leppard - Hysteria, 1987)

[Rainer Mangold]

One more peek for your statistics biologically 48 + 9 days feeling like a lot of years less

[Colin J Davies]

Glad somebody is older than me Regardz Colin Davies

[Matt Eckerson]

30, going on 4. :-D Matt

[Gennady Oster]

'0x477265617421' Regards, Gennady