Old farts and new Linux

[Neil Cherry]

jludwig wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 12:08, dsyates wrote:
> Snip;
> 
>>I am 37 and I started using linux when I was 29. All 4 of my six 
>>computers are running linux.
> 
> Snip
> I'm 52 and used linux since RH 5.1 and have all 4 of my machines running
> Fedora.
> Oh, and yes, I see that you learned counting on W-95 educational
> program.

OK, so I couldn't resist. ... I've been in computers since 1978, I've
been using Linux since 0.96 (SLS) but was brought up on AT&T SYSV 3.0.
I have computers from 1976 to the present (my VAX is current running in
the lab at work). I've been network with Cisco since 1989. I've used
more OS's, programming languages and UI's than I care to remember and
the 2nd keyboard I ever used required you to know ASCII to send the
control key sequences (i.e. no Enter, CR or <- key). I've worked with
speeds from 28.8 (that's baud) to OC 192 and I've been on the 'net
since 1985 (Rutgers - Soup Kitchen and that was Usenet not Internet
;-). I've dealt with more protocols than I can remember (Hi & Lo
speed TTY, Baudot, XNS, PUP, etc) and I hope I can continue to do so
for a long time. What a long strange trip it's been. :-)

BTW, I don't remember the good old days as lot of things are better
now than they were then. The rest is pretty much the same (SSDD, no
not Single Sided, Double Density).

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