Age

I'm 41, born 1963-06-21, and to make a short story long: I allways was interested in technical gear, so at the age of 8 or 9 when my father used an IBM Mag Card Selectric to acces an IBM Mainframe I first heard of computers. Took one or two years till I saw the first computer in my life (my father bought a pdp8/m in 1974). The years went by and after using programmable calculators Commodore PR100 and TI-59 my father allowed me to put hands on the pdp8 in 1979. Thereafter came some other machines - dds2 cs (TI9900), dg eclipse, Commodore 4008, 8032, zx81, VAX 11/750, 780, the unavoidable PCs, Daisy, some 68K Unix Machines (force, eltek,..), Sun sparcs, HP 3000, Siemens RM, Sun Ultra Sparc, Fujitsu-Siemens PrimePower. I learned programming on the pdp8 (FOCAL, PAL8, BASIC9), studied computer science (FORTRAN IV, Pascal, 8085) wrote MS-DOS drivers in x86 and C (modified Borland C runtime system to do that) did hardware development (active ISDN adapter for PCs - tina ds from Stollmann) ported the Unix System VR3.2 STREAMS evironment to DR FlexOS, wrote STREAMS drivers for redundant connections over OSI layers, ported OSI layers 3 and 4 from/to Sinix (Reliant Unix), HP-UX, Solaris, SCO-Unix, Interactive Unix, Linux. And now doing Unix (mostly Solaris) administration since 1999. Collection: pdp8/m TI-59, dds2-cs, (not vintage) Ultra Sparcs (E250, E450, E3500). New to come (April) Two fully loaded pdp8/e racks ;-)) Greetings Gerold