OT - How old are you?

[Calum]

I do apologize if there is already a similar topic, I did search.
And I also apologize for the off topic, this is my second off topic in an hour or so.
Anyway, I just wanted to get a feel for how old people are on these forums.
If you prefer not to answer then don't answer.
I'm 15.

[street1 (RIP)]

I am 55 and PeckerWood is 105.I have learned a few thing from you
and Dilbert.So Calum,youth seems to be doing fine. :-?

[fffreak]

I'm 17. 2 more months til' I'm legal, then graduation in May. How time flies, I still remember going to class in Kindergarten.

[2k_dummy]

I'm to flippin' old. So old, in fact, that I remember talking to Methuselah, who died in the year of the great flood.

[wayne425]

I am 16, it is good to see a range of ages in these forums (that is one old bird, by the way)

[soybean]

Let me put it this way.  I remember the first PC I used at work when I was working for a large organization back in 1984.  It was an IBM PC with no hard drive.  Had to boot from a 5.25 inch floppy disk, which loaded DOS into memory, then remove that disk and insert the LOTUS 1-2-3 disk, the only application software we had at the time.  By this time, I had been out of high school for 20 years.  I'll let you do the math.

[JohnK]

I'm 14, almost 15 (i'll be 15 on February 24th)

-John

[street1 (RIP)]

Let me put it this way.  I remember the first PC I used at work when I was working for a large organization back in 1984.  It was an IBM PC with no hard drive.  Had to boot from a 5.25 inch floppy disk, which loaded DOS into memory, then remove that disk and insert the LOTUS 1-2-3 disk, the only application software we had at the time.  By this time, I had been out of high school for 20 years.  I'll let you do the math.

I did the math.You will only buy bananas if they are ripe. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

[soybean]

Let me put it this way.  I remember the first PC I used at work when I was working for a large organization back in 1984.  It was an IBM PC with no hard drive.  Had to boot from a 5.25 inch floppy disk, which loaded DOS into memory, then remove that disk and insert the LOTUS 1-2-3 disk, the only application software we had at the time.  By this time, I had been out of high school for 20 years.  I'll let you do the math.

I did the math.You will only buy bananas if they are ripe. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

LOL.  Well, I might buy them while they're still a little green but, if I do, I let them ripen more before I eat them.  I always have liked the taste of them better when they're ripe enough to have lost all trace of green.  Bananas with freckles are quite good.  

[SilentAssasin64]

16 here.

[2k_dummy]

Whippersnappers all. You to soybean.

1. Whats a Univac?
2. Whats a punch card?
3. Whats a paper tape?
4. Whats a mainframe?
5. What "home" computer came with a whopping 4k of memory, no disk drives, stored programs on an audio cassette, and you had to write your own programs?

Me and Methuselah might be the only ones who still remember.

[Rob Pomeroy]

I was rummaging around our workshop recently and I cam across an old teleprinter...

Hmm...  Old "home" computers...  The original ZX81 had 1K, so it's not that...!

[Calum]

Whippersnappers all. You to soybean.

1. Whats a Univac?
2. Whats a punch card?
3. Whats a paper tape?
4. Whats a mainframe?
5. What "home" computer came with a whopping 4k of memory, no disk drives, stored programs on an audio cassette, and you had to write your own programs?

Me and Methuselah might be the only ones who still remember.

1. Univac is a computer of some sort, ac stands for analogue computer.
2. Punch card is what you used to use instead of disks?  They had programs and data on them, I think.
3. Paper tape was used for storage too?
4. Mainframe is the equivalent of a server nowadays, and they could be used by many people at once through dumb terminals, like timesharing, saving the costs of lots of computers.
5. Was it an Atari of some sort?
And no, I didn't look these up on the internet.  Honestly.

[dl65]

LOL ........ How old am I ........... let's put it this way , when I was a young-un,
I signed on as the navigator on a vessel skippered by some guy called Noah....
and ....................... when I plugged in the co-ordinates he gave me we ended up on the side of some mountain.


dl65  

[Dilbert]

I'll be 16 in a week.