Age test...
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After reading OG's post about ARPANET 50 years ago I started to wonder who is the oldest/youngest active member here (age not membership)?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Not I - I am a mere stripling from February 1959.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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LOL. I suspect my dad had one or more incidents exactly like that!
Yep.
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After reading OG's post about ARPANET 50 years ago I started to wonder who is the oldest/youngest active member here (age not membership)?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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After reading OG's post about ARPANET 50 years ago I started to wonder who is the oldest/youngest active member here (age not membership)?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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So far, I appear to be the eldest, with a birth year of 1944. I'd be happy to teach any of you young'uns what I remember offhand about the early days of FORTRAN and COBOL! Of course, eventually I progressed from there to Basic, then C, C++, and finally C# with a bit of JavaScript and a few others thrown in for good measure. Please wake me in time for my nap! :zzz:
We have here one 10 years before you...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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@Dennis Dykstra: Sorry 1944 doesn't make it. How about April 1943? First program Fortran II (compiler was a deck of punch cards), Last coding Angular 7 a couple of days ago. Agree it's time for a nap!
You are even with theoldfool... Same year, same month...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Not I - I am a mere stripling from February 1959.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Looking at all of the replies, I wonder what happened during May-August 1958 to cause so many February to May 1959 births of people who turned out to be programmers.... March 4 1959 here.
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After reading OG's post about ARPANET 50 years ago I started to wonder who is the oldest/youngest active member here (age not membership)?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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After reading OG's post about ARPANET 50 years ago I started to wonder who is the oldest/youngest active member here (age not membership)?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
July, 1940, but so far only the second oldest. I started with Fortran before it needed a number and did some coding in FAP, then coded in various assembly languages for mainframes, minis and micros. Along the way I picked up bits of COBOL, PL/I, BASIC, CBASIC, ALGOL... I am still grateful for C. For the past 15 years, I revel in Classic C++.
Joan F Silverston jsilverston@cox.net nhswinc.com
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1989 though I generally don't respond just but I do like to lurk in the shadows and read responses.
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So far, I appear to be the eldest, with a birth year of 1944. I'd be happy to teach any of you young'uns what I remember offhand about the early days of FORTRAN and COBOL! Of course, eventually I progressed from there to Basic, then C, C++, and finally C# with a bit of JavaScript and a few others thrown in for good measure. Please wake me in time for my nap! :zzz:
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Not as far as I know, but like him my family immigrated from the Netherlands. In my case, though, my grandparents immigrated in the 1880s. He came on his own as an adult after he was already well-known in computer science.
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Not I - I am a mere stripling from February 1959.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
I'm close - this=OG+1; Now if I could just remember if i put Himem.sys before the token ring drivers or after...
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I'm close - this=OG+1; Now if I could just remember if i put Himem.sys before the token ring drivers or after...
Only if you have enough space for the mouse driver and the sound card - otherwise it's "Hello Emm386"!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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After reading OG's post about ARPANET 50 years ago I started to wonder who is the oldest/youngest active member here (age not membership)?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
How about 1943? When I learned to program, we had to twist the bits with our bare hands.
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After reading OG's post about ARPANET 50 years ago I started to wonder who is the oldest/youngest active member here (age not membership)?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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- My father was a Master Carpenter and Master Fitter (Engineer) - he designed and built a machine that helped build machines that made parts for Spitfires (and other aircraft) so he was in a "reserved occupation" and was not allowed to join up. He ran away and tried to anyway, three times. The third time he managed to get through two weeks of basic before they tracked him down and sent him back. Later, he was blown across a road into a wall during the blitz on Coventry and this affected his eyesight for the rest of his life - and finally stopped him trying to join up again. - My grandfather started WWII as a Colonel and then became a Brigadier General by the end. He was in logistics moving materials around the country on the railway so never left England during the fighting. He also assisted the Germans to rebuild their railway systems after the war. He got to be this rank during WWI where he started out as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery being promoted to lieutenant after only two weeks because all the other lieutenants were dead. A couple of months later he was promoted to acting captain because all the other captains were dead. He was then confirmed as a full captain a couple of weeks later because no replacement captains were available. After three months he became an acting major, then a full major for similar reasons. His unit was cut off and surrounded by a German pincer advance and he was under standing orders to kill all the horses, spike the guns and surrender if this happened. Instead he had them limber up and charge forward, unexpectedly jumping over the German trenches and wheeling to the south for a mile or two, then jumping back over the lines to the British side beyond the encircling German pincer movement. He only had one horse and two men injured and brought back all his guns and equipment. He was recommended for a medal but it was turned down as he had "disobeyed orders"! However, he was promoted again to Lieutenant Colonel and given command of four units back in the place he had escaped from after the Germans had been driven back again. He became a reservist at the end of the war, being promoted to Colonel at that time. Neither he nor my father talked about their wartime experiences, I found out all this from some of their friends over the course of several years.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
:thumbsup: Wonderful stories, Forogar; thanks for sharing !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I'm 63, and a few months away from being 64).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013Interesting, I always thought you were 30-ish.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Interesting, I always thought you were 30-ish.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
I'm too angry to be that young... :)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
