Funny, this
list is about classic computing but some people don't
appreciate the old timers who are classics. For me having you guys (ok,
Dave is a youngin') around is the best part of this list. There is an
important period in computing before I got started in the late 1970s that I
don't know enough about, and I enjoy hearing comments from the guys who
were there.
I'm old enough to appreciate being called a youngin' once in a while.
;) I'm 42, been computing since I was ~12, doing it for money since I
was ~14. Don't paint me as too much of a newbie; I used most of what we
talk about on this list at work when it was modern! ;)
I'm about the same age (44) and also started computing in the late 1970s,
so I'm not realyl an old-timer either. I grew up with the 8-bit home
micros, and I knew waht a PDP11 was (and knew I wanted one), but I
didn;'t use the machines I am now really interested in -- minicomputers,
PERQs, HP desktop calculators when they were current. I got them when
they were being thrown out and fell in love.
So I can't contribute to the stories of people who were there. I do enjoy
reading such stories, so please keep them coming. However, a machine is
interesting to me for what it does, not what it looks like, so I try to
get them going again. And of course that often means working out repair
methods that were not used when they were new, which I am then happy to
share.
-tony