2006-05-18, 02:01 AM
I am not that old. 37.
We had TSR-80 growing up and Zenith/Heathkit computers (Z89/Z100).
When I was like 10 or so my mom had me install chips in the computer so we could have a color display.
My mom's boss was a retired Green Beret, Korean War Pow, Purple Heart, US Army Golden Knights performance skydiver, computer whiz. He was in our local paper for communicating with the space shuttle one year. He was our high school computer (I mean "Business Data Proccessing" teacher.) Learned Basic and Cobol before I was 16. He had stories about when he was in Japan they would "F" with each other by knocking the puch card stacks out of the carrier they would use. He would back up his computers to a VCR tape somehow. Had reel-to-reel drives. As a kid, I was awe struck.
I came to the conclusion that "Coding sucks" and went into "Drafting". I have not learned a programing language since. Smart move on my part huh?
It did teach me to trouble-shoot, and I can somewhat follow code because it really is somewhat the same with loops, counters, and sub routines, ect.
On another note, I just sent to a recycler from my work (I am the "IS/IT" guy in the small company as well) five 8080's and two 8088's that we had in the "boneyard".
We also got rid of our old reel-to-reel drive and our old SparcStation-2 workstations that was bought for over $500,000 US (Unigraphics Cad program at like $30K per seat)
We had TSR-80 growing up and Zenith/Heathkit computers (Z89/Z100).
When I was like 10 or so my mom had me install chips in the computer so we could have a color display.
My mom's boss was a retired Green Beret, Korean War Pow, Purple Heart, US Army Golden Knights performance skydiver, computer whiz. He was in our local paper for communicating with the space shuttle one year. He was our high school computer (I mean "Business Data Proccessing" teacher.) Learned Basic and Cobol before I was 16. He had stories about when he was in Japan they would "F" with each other by knocking the puch card stacks out of the carrier they would use. He would back up his computers to a VCR tape somehow. Had reel-to-reel drives. As a kid, I was awe struck.
I came to the conclusion that "Coding sucks" and went into "Drafting". I have not learned a programing language since. Smart move on my part huh?
It did teach me to trouble-shoot, and I can somewhat follow code because it really is somewhat the same with loops, counters, and sub routines, ect.
On another note, I just sent to a recycler from my work (I am the "IS/IT" guy in the small company as well) five 8080's and two 8088's that we had in the "boneyard".
We also got rid of our old reel-to-reel drive and our old SparcStation-2 workstations that was bought for over $500,000 US (Unigraphics Cad program at like $30K per seat)
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