0x82, "nerd" (not too bad considering my age as well) -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- There are 10 kinds of people: those who read binary, and those who don't. --

0xf7, "Hacker" --- On Sat, 2/28/09, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote: From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> Subject: Re: UNIX funny, classic computing relevant To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 2:28 PM born after 0x82, "nerd" (not too bad considering my age as well) -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- There are 10 kinds of people: those who read binary, and those who don't. --

Jim Leonard wrote: 0x187. But that's because I cut my teeth on mainframes and moved to UNIX later. That, and I usually have a lot of time on my hands. I'm 31 years of age. Peace... Sridhar

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de> wrote: I was a little perplexed because "can use BSD UNIX" and "can use non-BSD UNIX" came up twice, not to mention that to the *user* (not sysadmin) there shouldn't be *that* much difference. John -- "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote: $b4 Yeah, I'm 45, and just missed punch cards in college. and I'm not complaining... Kelly

Kelly Fergason wrote: just missed... mmm. I still smile when i think of drum card hacking and how that was so impressive to some people. anyone who used card for any length of time could fire off a drum card. it's the same today as firing off some emacs lisp to rebind a key. cards/batch imposed a certain discipline which was useful. I don't miss cards but being forced to review your code was a good thing, imho. oddly, I still spent 2 days finding a single character bug in fortran code (on cards) and much much later, 3 weeks finding a single character bug in C (on a unix box). some things don't change. heck, the other day I found a single character bug in some C code. #define blah (1 < 3) but it was *supposed* to be (1 << 3) I got 0 when I wanted 8. but it still compiled and ran. for weeks :-( -brad

0x134 (0465, 309, 60.3%) - Guru I'm just a bit younger, but I also just missed punch cards in college as a required activity, but the equipment was still littering the halls in the computer building only a few years earlier when I was wandering around as a bored kid (I grew up a couple of blocks away Campus that didn't have the equipment locked away, like the one closet with a pair of DECwriters w/built-in acoustic couplers, or the Education library with the free PLATO terminals). I also used to make and test DEC<->IBM communication peripherals at a place that had RSX-11, RSTS, VMS, UNIX, and VM/CMS running, giving me lots of IBM, DEC, and datacomm experience. I was never a huge IBM guy, but between operating COMBOARDs and taking the one FORTRAN class in college, I did fiddle with them a bit and did have to learn EBCDIC to interpret line analyzer streams of HASP, 3780, and SNA traffic (including lots and lots of BIND debugging!) It doesn't hurt ones score that these days, the "joke" questions like 0215 "Do you use more than 1 terabyte?" are not as absurd as they once were. In terms of rating the test, FWIW, question numbers 0071 and 0077 aren't really questions, they are section headers; and 0245 doesn't appear at all, so nobody better get a score above 0x1fd (without cheating, which ought to be a question on its own). Lots of memories (and lots of years!) wrapped up in those answers. -ethan