On Saturday 08 May 2004 18:36, Bill Diamond wrote: >On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 01:05, Gregory Woodbury wrote: >> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 09:10:14PM -0400, Bill Diamond wrote: >> > On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 11:00, Steve Searle 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 =] >> > > >> > > Well I'm 43 and have 5 PCs/Servers in my study running >> > > Gnu/Linux. I started as a trainee programmer on a Honeywell >> > > maiunframe in '79. >> > > >> > > And I know there are plenty older and more skilled than me. >> > >> > Ditto. I'm pushing 44, and I have three Linux servers and two >> > WinPCs. >> > >> > Please, sonny. We grandpappys were programming Unix before you >> > were even conceived of. Hell, I was programming Bell Version >> > 3 back in 1980. >> > >> > So, y'all hush up now and respect your elders :-) >> >> In 1980 it was Bell Labs "Edition 7" (based on the User's Manual >> edition). > >We were a source code licensee for BV3. It had some interesting >trapdoors. My particular favorite was the ability to run su and > fail it three times in a row. It made you root. Lots of work went > into weeding out the various odd bits like that and we stuck with > it. Sort of forked our own development path. Chuckle. Its just goes to prove that nothing is infallible. Particularly us humans who write code.:) >> Me? In 1958 I was keypunching FORTRAN decks for my dad at age 5. >> Played with computers and teletypes and all sorts of fun stuff all >> my life. Began UNIX with Edition 6 in 1978 at Duke, helped with >> the establishment of Usenet, consulted at Bell Labs, did the NYC >> thing for a few years, then a few (15) years as departmental guru. >> Hit Linux with kernel 0.94 and Slackware, then RedHat 2.x and >> have been a RH fan ever since. I'm only 50, but I've been a >> computer user for longer than most. > >I take it that must have been a bit of a challenge. I mean, just >putting a control card on the drum of the 024 would have been a > problem at that height! > They didn't furnish ladders? Gee... 8-) > >Bill -- 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.
