POLL: How old are you?

[SilverPuppy]

48 and counting... I remember watching Gerry Anderson's UFO when a computer was the size of a room. When I went to school we learned Fortran and Basic. There were certain individuals who used to print out pinups of girls which were entirely made up of text. What a laugh. Does that make me older than dirt? Probably not. I remember the flying cars too but we'd probably be far worse off now environmentally if they'd been realized.

You're better off for the Fortran and Basic, which actually explains a lot of why people here tend to be older. You understand computers and are willing to make a solution, not simply requiring one to be ready for you to download a fix-all. You're actually :gasp: EDUCATED!!!!

As for the flying cars, the environment would be fine. It always has been. It changes some from time to time, but it always steadies itself. The earth's climate is dictated almost entirely by the sun, and yet we never hear anything about it. There's a documentary called "The Great Global Warming Swindle" that everyone who believes in man-made climate change absolutely MUST watch before they believe everything they've been told. Get both sides of the issue before you jump to conclusions. And hey, it's actually interesting and fun to watch, even if you don't change your mind.

[rarsa]

"The Great Global Warming Swindle" that everyone who believes in man-made climate change absolutely MUST watch before they believe everything they've been told.

It's more than "believing' it's observation but I'll watch it. Thanks for the reference.

Now back to topic. (or to a new thread)

[p310don]

Digging up an old thread - but hey, I am bored at work and thought this was interesting.

32.

It is interesting that most of the people on here are actually significantly older, and, often have computer experience from before Windoze took over the world.

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Ironic....


PostPosted: Yesterday, at 11:05 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post
Very Happy Hello,
Yea, I started out on a 16k TRS Z-80 running Extended Color Basic 2.1
I think Puppy makes more sense to those of us who used computers before Windoze...
Funny, I still have every version of Windows...from 1 to 7........... LOL........
Th e "Cell phone / Microwave "I aint got all minute"" generation aint as "green" as they think...
Take a "Goodwill" computer and make it outrun the "latest and greatest"...
Thats green to me.....
Wink

BTW....46..

[TheAsterisk!]

I'm 20, and will be 21 in late June.
(10100 goin' on 10101, for the odder folks. )

Up until 1998, the only computers I could readily access and use were old, aging Macs at school and a 1984 IBM desktop with PC DOS installed at home.

Re. Flying Cars:
Firstly, there are more than enough God-awful drivers working in three dimensions already, and I don't want most of them working in four. Secondly, your fuel costs will go up in real hurry. Thirdly, you can already command a flying machine (solo) at fifteen years old in the US, before you can drive one of those new-fangled horseless carriages everyone is always jabbering on about. Finally, do you really expect all these would-be pilots to get IFR ratings, or will all personal traffic just seize up whenever it gets too cloudy, or rains, or when it gets dark?
Simply not feasible, not without (potentially comedic, in a slightly dark way) calamities.

[sc0ttman]

wow... no offense intended, as its no bad thing, but puppy users are generally older than I thought ...

I'm 25, started using Puppy in early/mid 2009... Not got a degree yet, but will be doing computer science in Oct this year, after getting more into programming and such (aside from php), thanks to Puppy

[MinHundHettePerro]

Played with the hype of the times, the Sinclair ZX-81 in my mid-teens .

Cheers /
MHHP

[majorfoo]

80 and counting

[DPUP5520]

26, still have an old Lisa 2 that I acquired years ago and was my first computer. As far as I know the only one my age that knows COBOL too.

[GustavoYz]

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[Bernie_by_the_Sea]

Age 83. I retired in 1975 and I had both time and money to spend on toys. My first home computer was an Interact 16K I bought in 1979, http://www.old-computers.com/museum/com ... =1004&st=1, followed by a C64, Coleco Adam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Adam , Timex 1000, TI-99/4A and an IBMPC XT, all before 1984. Half of these cost over $500 ($1000 in today's dollars), had only 16Kb RAM and used a TV set for a monitor. I wrote (and sold) programs for all of them until the late-80's. Besides BASIC, I used 8080 and 6510 assembler and wrote subroutines in machine language.

I've played with Linux (mostly Debian and its variants) on and off since 2004. Puppy is simple after years of trying to get tape cassettes to load, having to assemble my own serial port board from a box of parts, and using a 300-baud acoustic modem and a terminal to communicate with bulletin boards -- and that’s just the hardware side -- with early software you sometimes had to write to the screen pixel-by-pixel just to get alphanumeric characters and you got “music

[Laie]

Age 51,
Sinclair QL was my first one.

[tubeguy]

I thought I responded to this one, but I guess my 46 year old brain is throwing errors. Back in my 20's I never would have guessed I'd still be alive today, but I guess I got lucky. I honestly thought I would die in a spectacular car crash or drug overdose. Go figure. Now it's simple, clean living, early to bed, early to rise, very little drama. I quite like this life I have now.

[tubeguy]

Wow, I thought that more people here were like me, young and stupid. I'm not sure which is more surprising, the general age of the group, or that WhoDo isn't 25 like me! Just an impression I got.

How old is Barry?

Barry is about 61.

http://bkhome.org/bkauler/

[GustavoYz]

I'm surprised to see that most puppy's users are between 51-60, according this poll...
Well, at least puppy users who participate in polls.

[gnz11]

from the age range of the poll what i see are folks that wanted to try something different.

most have been around windows for many years and some of the pre-windows computing.

so they weren't necc worried about having to get their hands dirty.

i'm 46. one of the reasons i came to puppy was the xp drive i had died.

i had a w2k disk and was able to use it for a year before i saw linux as an alternative.

i came to linux at the time that livecd were just getting started.
i had disks for about 4 distros, some install required. the mian issue i had with all were that none liked my modem.
i finally came across puppy- 215ce and it found my modem right off.

the nice part with puppy from a livecd was that i could still use all the daata on my win box but not have to do all the housekeeping of windows.
this freed up over half of the time i was spending. and on dailup that waas a huge improvement.

the main reason i have stayed with puppy is that i can use it on almost any hardware,in any location.
with one cd i can start up a whole table of computers, and they are all functional.
for less than 200m i get a full os. and few side issues.
i think that i'm like many of the puppy users, i want an OS that works and doesn't tell me what to do.

i can make my pup as hard or difficult as i care to.

[Monsie]

Hi all,

I am the same age as Bill Gates. Well, apparently I am 6 days older... and as his "senior" I haven't yet had the opportunity to offer him any advice.

Currently, I am having coffee from my favorite mug that I've had for over 30 years... it has my name on it along with a picture of a 1955 Rolls Royce.

Cheers,
Monsie

[izezi]

Today is my birthday. I'm 55 years old today!

My first experience with a computer was an Apple with a real floppy disk that I taught myself to use in my spare time at work.

I was about 30 at the time and everybody else that worked there were college students who all had prior experience using computers. I wasn't about to let them know I had never touched one in my life and taught myself how to do all sorts of cool things, like access their personal files.

When they finally upgraded to a new one I was the only one who knew how to boot it up because you had to flip the floppy during boot.

[Colonel Panic]

Today is my birthday. I'm 55 years old today!

My first experience with a computer was an Apple with a real floppy disk that I taught myself to use in my spare time at work.

I was about 30 at the time and everybody else that worked there were college students who all had prior experience using computers. I wasn't about to let them know I had never touched one in my life and taught myself how to do all sorts of cool things, like access their personal files.

When they finally upgraded to a new one I was the only one who knew how to boot it up because you had to flip the floppy during boot.

Many happy returns!

[pemasu]

I am old enough...to have used 386 cpu diskless comp in job in 1992. The comps (512 kb RAM !) in my workplace booted dos 5.0 image from novell netware 3.1.2. The server was massive 486 50 Mhz with 100 mb hdd. It worked fine. Data was backed up to DAT on another hdd included workstation nightly. The server was updated to 90 Mhz pentium with 1 Gb hdd at some time. We left dos at 2000 and changed to use win4 server. I created first linux mail server to that retired 90 Mz Pentium with 32 Mb ram. I had Red Hat 6.0 with roxen web server and IMHO webmail plugin. It worked flawlessly. There was no X in server...of course.

The comps were Grid and Tandy by name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Corporation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRiD_Systems_Corporation

And my first personal office computer looked something like this: http://lazerzap.com/images/5000.jpg