<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.10"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 01:05, Gregory Woodbury wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>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).</PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> 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. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> 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.</PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> 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! <PRE>Bill</PRE> </BODY> </HTML>