POLL: How old are you?

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#141 Post by linuxbear »


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#142 Post by puppyluvr »

:D Hello,
Remember when the 5 1/4 floppy was such an amazing improvement over the old 8 inch format.. My first Hard Disk was 10 mb, and I was awestruck..
I held one of the first 100 mhz CPU`s, in the Intel factory, while it was still "top secret" 8) , but wasnt impressed compared to my 486 dx4-66... :roll:
Until the 2011 tornado here, I still had my Commodore 128D running GEOS...

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#143 Post by zenn »

No wonder most of the users in this forum are more experienced in commands and scripts. And that's not a bad thing when it comes to linux. :)

I don't perceive the age gap here at all. I'm 24 this year. Tinkering with computers led me to look past windows. Started with Knoppix, then Ubuntu and finally this distro which made my old hardware fly.

Community seemed friendly and that is why I joined. :D

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#144 Post by 8-bit »

If you really have to know, figure it out for yourself.
I was born in 1947.
I was born again when I discovered Puppy linux!
And I was also reborn when I rediscovered the advances in old Atari PCs.
I am not as frequent visiting now because of the last one as I am trying to build addon hardware for the old Ataris.

I can boot the Atari from a disk image stored on my IBM compatible PC using Windows or linux with a serial connection.
But I am still battling doing so with a USB2serial adapter connected to my serial2atari cable in linux. Works in Windows and I really hate having to go to Windows just for that feature.

I also am going quite insane! :wink:
Hope no one ha noticed! :)

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#145 Post by Eyes-Only »

Welcome to the Puppy Kennels ( "forum" ) Zenn! Hope we create a tonne of fond memories for you here and many awesome adventures in the world of Linux my fellow Puppian Friend!! :)

Cheers!/Amicalement!

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#146 Post by kros54 »

I saw people on the moon.
My first computer ZX81.
I know what it means in Fortran, Algol, Basic programming language.
In the past three years, the Hungarian-language was developed more than two dozen puplet.
In short, I am 58 years old...

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HOW old !!!!

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#148 Post by zenn »

Thanks for the warm welcome Eyes-Only. A small community already feels cosier than a large, commercialised one.
No doubt my exciting adventure has only just begun. :)

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#149 Post by tallboy »

Zenn wrote:I don't perceive the age gap here at all. I'm 24 this year.
What age gap??

tallboy 8)

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#150 Post by tinker »

I am 56, so I can't win the age contest, but I HAVE been programming since 1972, so call me 40 in programmer's years. (My high school had only started offering programming classes a couple years before that. We used a PDP 8L with 8K memory and a dial-up line and teletypes to get to a computer system at a local college.)

First computer was a Timex/Sinclair. My second computer (circa 1985) was an AT&T PC 6300, an IBM XT clone that one-upped the speed to 8mhz. (that's MEGAhertz, children).

I've done other things, but finally came back to programming (which I do as a job) and messing with obsolete/small/failed/obscure computers and tiny/beautiful/effective/elegant/home-brew operating systems (i.e., puppy) which I do as a hobby.

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#151 Post by ICPUG »

This got me thinking. When did programming (in high level language) start. As I recall there was a FORTRAN standard FORTRAN66 which presumably relates to 1966. Not sure about COBOL.

There must be a limit on age in Programmer Years (in high level language at least).

Me - I'm 60.

My school, which I finished in 1970, did not have ANY computers or calculators. Slide rules and logarithms were the technology of the classroom! I had some time to kill so used a book to teach myself FORTRAN before going to University later in the year, where I did it properly. These were the days of submitting programs on punched cards and waiting overnight to see if it ran! Getting syntax errors was extremely annoying and caused a delay of a day in running a program so we took more care in those days.

Puppyluvr asks us to remember when the 5 1/4 floppy was such an amazing improvement over the old 8 inch format.. My first Hard Disk was 10 mb, and I was awestruck..

He must be young! I've already mentioned punch cards and then came cassette tape on the first home computers. Hards disks? they were but a twinkle in the eye! I paid £180 to expand my Commodore PET with 8K of static RAM. A twin 5-1/4" floppy came later at £540.

Earlier this year I paid £8 to get an 8GB USB stick.

My computing history?

FORTRAN on an ICL190x mainframe (education and work)
IBM360 (work)
Commodore PET - Commodore 64/SX64 - Commodore Amiga (Home)
CP/M based machine (work)
IBM compatible PC (work and home) in increasing size and power over the years.

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#152 Post by linuxbear »

The computer thinks I am this old:

111010

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3A

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Why this age distribution?

#153 Post by tinker »

I'm not surprised that there's an almost bimodal distribution of ages on this forum. This group isn't like the poll about "who uses Ubuntu"' which might be skewed to a younger more casual crowd. Nobody adapts Ubuntu. You just download it and use it. Whereas puppy is incredibly adaptable, designed deliberately to be adapted by people with different levels of expertise, from simple remastering all the way to building whole new versions from the ground up using woof. Theres a place for everyone here. It's a real community, where real enthusiasts spend a LOT of time working on their own versions, making pets, building kernels, figuring out printing, or wireless, or helping newcomers.

So who's got the free time to spend doing all that? Some young people, with their youthful energy and relatively free schedules (although they're probably neglecting their studies somewhat). Some younger singles, without family obligations, although sometimes they get busy with their jobs. ( jemimah works like a superhuman person when her job isn't busy, but even she has to pull back when it is). Who really has the time - frankly it's going to be retired people, or people who're between jobs. Bless them, that they spend that free time working for the benefit of this community.

People in between, with kids and spouses and jobs and parents, can't always devote as much time.

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Eight Kilobites to Twelve gigabites

#154 Post by Minnesota »

Eight Kilobytes to Twelve gigabytes! One meg disk to Terabytes drives. Anyone play or program on an IBM 1130 computer? Eight K.. well actually a sixteen bit word, so by today's terms two bytes per word. Engineering major, was told to take a FORTRAN class, copied the first three programs, was so lost. By the end of the semester, I was playing from eight in the morning till after the janitor left. Following year in 1969 I was programming Payrolls, registration systems, grading systems, all on the 8 K machine. Size of your couch.

Cost was fifty thousand for an additional 8K of core memory. Just added 8 Gig of memory to my new laptop, so now have 12 GB, for forty dollars.

World goes around. One of the neat parts of the 1130 world was COMMON and other USER groups for folks to share programs and ideas. Then bigger systems became the norm. Fewer user groups. BBS's became a bit popular....and finally PUPPY and the Forum... folks like to share and contribute. For me puppy is fun, useful as well. Sixty-Six a few days ago.

Question was asked when higher level languages became popular. I would say mid Sixties. I programmed the 1130 in assembler a bit, mostly in FORTRAN and RPG. I took a COBOL class taught by an IBM instructor at the Junior Collage, COBOL was the popular language for Business and FORTRAN for engineering. A Few other flavors were used as well. That was the age of the IBM 360.

Much faster to program in higher level languages. First database was on the 1130, most of my programming today is in MS Database. Yes still programming commercial applications, in my spare time. Machines change, requirements change, but lots of companies still are manual or semi manual. Bet can be programming the same applications when I am 90! Currently programming an application I programmed similar twenty five years ago.

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#155 Post by ragaman »

49 and as the kids are finishing college, just starting life.

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POLL: How old are you?

#156 Post by L18L »

8-bit wrote:If you really have to know, figure it out for yourself.
I was born in 1947.
Really a very good method: Compute age from date of birth (1948) :)

Who had 8 kiloBytes?
1 k : http://www.reghardware.com/2012/04/24/r ... week_wrap/

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#157 Post by gerry »

I voted (?) back in 2009, thought I'd check to see how the results are going, but I can't see them. Have they disappeared?

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Re: POLL: How old are you?

#158 Post by linuxbear »

L18L wrote:
8-bit wrote:If you really have to know, figure it out for yourself.
I was born in 1947.
Really a very good method: Compute age from date of birth (1948) :)

Who had 8 kiloBytes?
1 k : http://www.reghardware.com/2012/04/24/r ... week_wrap/

My Timex Sinclair has 8 kilobytes

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#159 Post by Ted Dog »

really I am under 50, but have had an eventful life, always acted older but looked younger, was carded for alcohol till mid 30s. And was harassed by other teachers for blending in to much with my first teaching job, many times told to leave teacher lounge. had to grow facial hair to appear older.

But some posters surprise me by their mature posts ( like pizzagood and bark^3 ) and others post like middle school, but are 28 til mid year Wink no names lol.

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#160 Post by battleshooter »

Maybe we should start up another poll again. That way all under 50 year olds can retain their anonymity but we can still satisfy our (my) curiosity if the forum's age average has shifted.
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