Are you an old bastard?

[Cousin Jack]

I'm amazed that there's three (so far) over 71 that can actually use the internet!

...or more that can't use the internet and selected the wrong option.

Oi !

Not all of us oldies are decrepit and afraid of technology. I was using computers when all they said was C:> (or something like that)

And I am well over 71.
Fir the avoidance of doubt I am a really old bastard.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Not all of us oldies are decrepit and afraid of technology. I was using computers when all they said was C:> (or something like that)

Latecomer, I had to enter hex directly into registers at college.

[mangocrazy]

Not all of us oldies are decrepit and afraid of technology. I was using computers when all they said was C:> (or something like that)

Latecomer, I had to enter hex directly into registers at college.

Hah - I was loading disks and tapes on an IBM 370/145 and a GEC Leo-Marconi KDF9 in 1974.

[Mr. Dazzle]

If you're not inserting 1/4" jacks into something while smoking a pipe and wearing tweed is it really computing? Really?

[Count Steer]

If you're not inserting 1/4" jacks into something while smoking a pipe and wearing tweed is it really computing? Really?

That and writing your shopping lists on punched cards (data cards obvs) for 20 years.

[KungFooBob]

We could all just age ourselves by posting our first personal computer (well we do all work in IT)

Mine was a Sinclair Spectrum 128k +2.

[Yorick]

We could all just age ourselves by posting our first personal computer (well we do all work in IT)

Mine was a Sinclair Spectrum 128k +2.

I got my first computer at 40.

[KungFooBob]

We could all just age ourselves by posting our first personal computer (well we do all work in IT)

Mine was a Sinclair Spectrum 128k +2.

I got my first computer at 40.

A VIC-20 then!

[Yorick]

We could all just age ourselves by posting our first personal computer (well we do all work in IT)

Mine was a Sinclair Spectrum 128k +2.

I got my first computer at 40.

A VIC-20 then!

I had no previous interest. But had to buy one when I started contracting.
Just something from PC World. Can't remember.
Still have zero interest in the mechanics, just as long as it works.

[Mr. Dazzle]

We could all just age ourselves by posting our first personal computer (well we do all work in IT)

Mine was a Sinclair Spectrum 128k +2.

First one I remember was an IBM PC...literally just called "Personal Computer". My rents both worked at IBM since long before I was born.

There were computers at home since before I remember. Hence why I hate em

[KungFooBob]

I got my first computer at 40.

A VIC-20 then!

I had no previous interest. But had to buy one when I started contracting.
Just something from PC World. Can't remember.
Still have zero interest in the mechanics, just as long as it works.

I was being horrid, implying you were ancient. The VIC-20 came out in the late 70's, implying you were at least 83 years old.

[KungFooBob]

We could all just age ourselves by posting our first personal computer (well we do all work in IT)

Mine was a Sinclair Spectrum 128k +2.

First one I remember was an IBM PC...literally just called "Personal Computer". My rents both worked at IBM since long before I was born.

PS2

When I got my Amiga A500+, my swotty mate got an Amstrad 'PC' with a 80286 CPU. My first proper wintel 'PC' was a Celeron 300.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Nah i remember the PC going to make room for a PS2 with - shock horror - a mouse!

[cheb]

We could all just age ourselves by posting our first personal computer (well we do all work in IT)

Mine was a Sinclair Spectrum 128k +2.

No we don't, and never have.

Commodore 64.

[mangocrazy]

If you're not inserting 1/4" jacks into something while smoking a pipe and wearing tweed is it really computing? Really?

That and writing your shopping lists on punched cards (data cards obvs) for 20 years.

When people found out I had access to an unlimited supply of punched cards, I instantly became a lot more popular (not difficult... )

Punched cards made excellent roaches...

[ChrisW]

My first computer wasn't mine but I was the only one who used it - I turned up at a new job where they had a 386 on a table in an empty office that no-one knew what to do with - it had been bought because the board thought the firm should have a computer.

My first that was actually mine a few years later was a Pentium 90. With an overdrive button. Oh yeah.

[Cousin Jack]

Not all of us oldies are decrepit and afraid of technology. I was using computers when all they said was C:> (or something like that)

Latecomer, I had to enter hex directly into registers at college.

If we are bragging I used to manage a process using Hollerith punched card machinery.

[Count Steer]

My first computer wasn't mine but I was the only one who used it - I turned up at a new job where they had a 386 on a table in an empty office that no-one knew what to do with - it had been bought because the board thought the firm should have a computer.

My first that was actually mine a few years later was a Pentium 90. With an overdrive button. Oh yeah.

I got a job in a (not computing) department where my boss had an interest and so we had an Apricot, a couple of Zilogs and a few early Apples because he thought that was 'the way things were going'...quite how he justified it was ?? On a visit to an equivalent department in another part of the country they showed us, in a reverent fashion, into their computer room. A whole room dedicated to a single 386. (Which you needed permission to use)

Eventually our organisation caught up and standardised/downgraded us to IBM PCs.

[Mussels]

I had 16 switches and an execute button, I used that to instruct it to start loading the punch cards.
The computer was a whole room and had 256k of RAM.

[KungFooBob]

I shall compile the results of this poll using Lotus 1-2-3.