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On Saturday 17 January 2015 07:59:18 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 17/01/2015 03:35, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> > 150116 walt wrote: |
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> >> I'd love to see a bar-chart of the age distribution of gentoo devs |
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> >> & compare it to a chart of the people who hang out in this mailing list |
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> >> :)> |
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> > New devs usually seem to describe themselves as |
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> > "I live in a town in Germany with my wife & 2-year-old daughter ; |
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> > I am finishing my MSc in computer science ; |
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> > my hobbies are playing the guitar & riding my mountain bike". |
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> > |
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> > OTOH I suspect most of us here starting computing with punched cards ... |
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> Can't say I had that pleasure :-) |
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> I did start with teletype terminals, punched paper tape and a Sinclair |
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> Research Mk14 though! |
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Mine was ASR33 & KSR35 (even went on the two-day maintenance course for |
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those), 24-bit Ferrranti Argus 500, 8-hole tape, 16KB core store and 2MB |
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disk. That was in closed-loop control of the reactors of an AGR power |
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station! 40 years ago and hardly seems a day. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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