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I'm about to turn the big 4-oh in a few days ... 101000 (Bin), 28 (Hex), 50 (Oct), 40 (Dec).

What happened to my youth?! God to be 21 again!

PS: I've been rather depressed.

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/me is gonna be 16 in a few months.

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22 years...
Quite good age I can say ;)

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Damn. You are going to be very successful in life Qwerty, being as smart as you are already. I wondered how come you had so much free time. :D

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I slept through a Billy Joel concert in support of The Stranger when I was a kid.

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I made my 13 three months ago. Older people won't trust me and will say me i'm in the best age, but life sucks at any age :p

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My god, I don't remember -- I'm old; I don't remember what I had for breakfast this morning. . . but Alice Cooper -- that is memorable no matter how dim I get. . .(!)

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... and if this poll was created 2 weeks ago, i'd still be in the <18 category.

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My fondest Alice Cooper moments:

It never failed, the bus ride home on the last day of school would always be on a beautiful late Spring/early Summer day with the windows down and the driver hawlin' a*s, and "School's Out for Summer" would be crankin' on the radio. Good times.

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Ah, memories - "School's Out for Summer" was my senior year in high school - "... school's out forever ..."

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Just cause you didn't see it, doesn't mean it wasn't there... :p

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It's encouraging that as-near-as-dammit 40% of responses to this poll are 35 or over.

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sorry, was too busy celebrating :D
actually, celebrations were non-stop since the end of may (when school ended) throughout the entire month of june. don't blame me, for not noticing it... blame the hosts :)

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I am going to be 16 in october, 11,... I am allmost exactly as old as you.:D

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*sigh*

I've been running linux since '92-'93ish. Back in the days where kernel hacking involved editing boot.S to prevent my 486 from hanging without a keyboard attached.

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Bwahahaha-- you're all old!

*throws rocks at windows*

I got my first tablet in May of 2007 (The 21st is my b-day) and just recently sold my 770 to my friend in May and bought an N800 shortly after. I am 14 now and know a small bit of python (halp pleeze!) and html (I run my own website).

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I'm almost 40
Running linux since the 96's too
Got my tablet a couple of weeks ago

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I guess I must check in at 51.

I first bought a home PC back in 1981. Atari 400. Got lots of cartridges for it. Well, not that many. Later met a guy who helped me build a 5.25" floppy with the "smart" speedup firmware in it (turbo? can't recall what it was called) and he had all those cart games on floppy. Later had a BBS which also had some games.

A few later, I worked for a local company that repaired computer circuit boards from IBM minis and terminals, and other brands also. I once cataloged the number of brands of equipment I'd repaired but quit counting when it got over 100. That job petered out tho. You can't survive repairing throwaway gear that's made in China.

So nowadays I am back in school studying to be a medical tech (sonographer) so I can get paid to use high tech gear once again. I've had my N800 a few weeks; never really used Linux before but I did boot a few Xenix terminals (and of course, IBM system 32 and 34s and thousands of serial terminals) back in the day. Used to troubleshoot serial terminals comms problems daily. Made wrap cables for them to test with. Made lots of custom video cables so I could test monitors for customers who would not send in the machine that drove their dead monitor, just the monitor, for a machine nobody else had. Even repaired a few Cisco routers and switches. After my Atari I owned an ST, a 486, a Celeron, and an AMD64 as well as the N800. At work I used every M$ os from Dos 3.3 to Windows XP. Still can't make myself try Vista...

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let's thinking a little ;) i'm 34 only.... :eek:


my first tablet was apple newton omp it was in 1994 ....wow..

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42 here.

You kids WITHOUT tablets get off my yard!

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17. o.o

I found linux when I was 14, thanks to fatalsaint.

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I am surprised only 10% of us are under 18...

i am 14 =P

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Our age results are starting to fall in a very nice bell curve :P

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im 16 :D

and i know this will sound sad to the more experienced among you,
but i compiled my first program using Maemo-SDK 2.5 for the Internet Tablet on Monday :)

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thats not a bell curve, more like middle aged spread.

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The distribution is clearly skewed to the left. :P

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This sample could be biased. Old geezers that work all day are more likely to be on these forums and answer a poll question in an Off Topic post?

/me hides

:D

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i'm 24, but i agree with earlier posts that 45+ should be split into more groups.... everyone knows that young people use this kind of gadget but i'd be interested to know how many 60+ users there are

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Yeah, like I pointed out earlier: if the poll had been designed with life expectancy in mind, and partitioned appropriately, you would be seeing that curve already I'll bet. ;)

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Now THAT is a true nerd. jk

I agree, I'd like to see 60+ stats

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Hey, I've been a data analyst the past few years, what do you expect? :p

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I am old enough to know better.

And young enough not to care!!!

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I turned 16 this past october (october, 11) and am exactly 1 day younger than qwerty12. :p

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Nah. I haven't had the privilege of staying anywhere that long because I've failed axe dodging a couple of times, but I've known a fair number of people at various workplaces who have been at the same company and doing IT work for 30+ years. But I've worked at shops which had a long history with UNIVAC (now Unisys) mainframes.

When I worked at NWA, I had a teammate who came over from UAL in 1989 or so who had worked with their UNIMATIC system since they started writing it back in 1967 (a mix of SLEUTH and ASM assembler and a FORTRAN 66 variant called FIELDATA FORTRAN V). Well, he stayed at NWA and worked on our copy of UNIMATIC (dubbed WorldFlight) until he retired sometime around 1999 or thereabouts. He spent almost 32 years working in the same software environment, and I think he spent almost all of that time in the Weight and Balance application! :)

Oh, since I've revived an old thread, I should probably say I'm 46 now, and my previous poll answer is now wrong. :D

(46 would be 56 in octal, or 06566 in the octal representation of FIELDATA)

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I'm 25 1/2 ... I rounded down ;)

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I'm (I always have to subtract first) 62; we don't have presidents here, but I'm living through my third king.

Remember those PDP-8 and -11 cabinets (in the 70-s)?
CP/M ? The first DOS PC with the 8086 processor at a few MHz?
When RAM was at most 64 Kb (kilobytes)?

And then, at the time of the 16 bit 80386 (EDIT: 32 bit, but most software was still 16 bit), around 1990, came the first ARM (Acorn Risc Machine), a 32 bit RISC processor at 8 (or was it 12) MHz, about as fast as a 16 MHz 80386.
And the Acorn Archimedes ARM-powered computer with RISC OS, a windowing OS with cooperative multitasking, way ahead of Microsoft !
RISC OS allowed dynamic loading of system modules.
Much of RISC OS was written in assembler, so it was fast.
As was the case with many of the applications.
The assembler was well structured, with all instructions 32 bit long and capable of conditional execution, and hence easy to program in.

( RISC OS is still going strong; there are (a bit expensive) computers, and there is an emulator for PCs which is supposed to be rather fast. )

Now, some 15 years later, we have ARMs running at x00 MHz in our tablets, as well as in most(?) handhelds.

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Surprised to see the age spread where it is. I would have expected more older folk.

25 here :p

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Well, I have been working in this same engineering department for 31 years . . . . . you figure it out!

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My category is going to change in a few weeks. Goodbye under 18!

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My grandma is over 100 and still living well :)