I’m 52.
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I’m 46. My first (and only formal) CS course was conducted using
teletypes and a mainframe in Canada, while I was in Phoenix AZ: the
McGill University System for Interactive Computing, or MUSIC, which
taught us BASIC.
There was a card reader in the building, but I never used it for
anything. I did use up a lot of fan-fold paper, though, as this was an
actual clatter-type teletype, not one of your fancy “glass terminals”.
It was very nice to spend the god-awful summer in a 70 room…
Walter
This is a really cool thread. Really, I had the impression that everyone
here was in there 20’s and boy/girl geniuses. I feel less of an outlier.
I read about a study that managers overestimate the salaries of their
peers
and those managers below them and underestimate the salary of peers
above. I
think maybe for me a similar mechanism occurred with age. Hmmmm…
2010/10/12 Rodrigo M. [email protected]
Just turned 24
Jason S.
“I’m going to live forever or die trying.”
I am 3 bytes years old. 
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2010/10/12 Edmond K. [email protected]
I am 3 bytes years old.
I am 3 bytes years old => 3* 8 bits => 24 years.
I wrote the first program in C 5 years ago at the University of Malawi.
Before then, I had never touched a computer (typical of an African child
). I should confess that C remains my favourite language to the extent
that
sometimes I find myself writing C-like Ruby code :-). I used to love MS
tools, but I am “nixed” (= christened into Linux Faith), though I can
still
dance to MS tunes when they are talking in C language.
On Oct 12, 2010, at 6:44 AM, David K. wrote:
This is a really cool thread. Really, I had the impression that everyone here
was in there 20’s and boy/girl geniuses. I feel less of an outlier.
Not all of us. It is interesting for sure!
For the record… I’m 36. First computer was a TRS-80 that read games
off of cassette tapes (oh how i hated that cassette player!). First
real computer was the original 1984 Macintosh which I had till about a
year ago when my boys finally managed to kill it off. I like to think
my dad got his money’s worth out of that old Mac 
-philip
I got you beat there. I started drawing my early social security
earlier this year. I am 62 and started programming on an IBM 1130 in
'67 or so. All of the programing was on cards. Lots of fun carrying a
box of them around. That machine had a removable disk drive of some
type that contained megabytes of space. It was amazing what you could
do with a machine like that. We didn’t get to run our own programs, you
had to submit them and then figure out what you did wrong from the
output listings.
Norm
Great to see some other programmers on this list of “mature age”. I’m
49 and wrote my first line of code in Pascal at the University of
Sydney 30 years ago. It has been a fascinating journey since then and
these days I love programming in Ruby for a living.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Norm S.
[email protected]wrote:
We didn’t get to run our own programs, you had to submit them and then
figure out what you did wrong from the output listings.
That is an amount of patience that I think has been lost forever
5 track paper tape … mumble mumble … hollerith … grumble grumble
… punch card … mumble … marveled at the technology that allowed
us to encode lowercase letters!!!1!! (or 7 track paper tape as it
was known).
Actually I’m only 49 but I started quite young. I’ve been a paid
programmer for nearly 30 years (probably 28 years but when it gets
this long things get fuzzy ) I think I was 11 or 12 when I wrote my
first program - using paper tape.
You know what the great thing is, it just keeps getting better!
twenty five years… six months ago i started in Rails world… i am a
new
developer… i am happy now (PHP and Java was a wrong way for me for
seven
years)
Ruby + Rails + Jquery is very powefull for me
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