On Monday 03 May 2004 17:29, alex wrote: >dsyates wrote: >> Around 03:44pm on Monday, May 03, 2004 (UK time), duncan brown scrawled: >>>>> and i don't mean to insult you in anyway, but... i wonder who's >>>>> the oldest >>>>> computer literate linux user out there? i sort of have the >>>>> mentality of >>>>> the hippies back in the 60s/70s, don't trust anyone over 30 =] >>>>> ... it's hard for me to believe that someone over 30 uses linux >>>>> personally, once you're over 30 you have to start thinking more >>>>> like a manager =]... then >>>>> again, i'm almost over that line, but i don't feel like i'm >>>>> that close =] >> >> I am 37 and I started using linux when I was 29. All 4 of my six >> computers are running linux. >> To be almost 30, you have some serious misconceptions. > >There comes a time when there's some validity to the label OF. > >I'm a relative newcomer to computers and particularly Linux, >with no formal training. > >I started at age 76 back in 1994 on a Commodure C64, graduated >to a Quantex a few years later running Win95/98/98SE. Then when >Sam's 'Teach yourself Linux in 24 hours' came out with a RedHat >5.0 CD, took a chance and now at age 86 have 6 different Linuxes >installed with a couple of double installations. The old Qantex >is slow by today's standards but otherwise still doing a good job. > >I'm by no means a Linux expert so depend a lot on the various >lists and web pages for information. My biggest accomplishment >is a set of aliases that that lets me access any other system >(including MS Windows) to copy/move/edit from whichever Linux I >happen to be running. > > > alex Congratulations Alex, I'm topped, quite resoundingly at 17 years. Many more to you too. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
