1944, November 12th to be succinct. Ah yes, my first computer was a few stones, later a thin rope with knots, and then an abacus. Our cell phone was just yelling outloud!
hahahaha wow! born right before the war ended! So does that make you a Baby Boomer? I can only read about 1944 in my history textbook. I must give kudos to you for being able to use a high tech computer, being so old and all....
Well, actually I started working with computers at a bank in 1965, it used \'punch cards\' to run the programs and data, and tape drives as big as a vending machines to record data. Our printer actually had type-writer type cloth ribbon to print with mechanical keys. It was a stand alone machine as big as most office style copiers are today. Then, when I went to U of H I aced my computer science class learning a scientific program called Fortran IV, then I did post baccalaureate work in 6 more hours of computer science. I used a computer when I was an appraiser that was before Microsoft took over, and we actually had to tell the machine to load the DOS...the disc operating system, which we all know now as microsoft, or all those other operating systems used now. Pretty neat huh! For an old gheezer! (Actually I was a \'War Baby\', the \'Baby Boomers\' were a result of all those healthy young men coming home from the war to play with all those lonely young women. ;>)
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hahaha, old man. Don\'t tell me you were born before 1945?!?!?!?! that\'s like...ancient man.
1944, November 12th to be succinct. Ah yes, my first computer was a few stones, later a thin rope with knots, and then an abacus. Our cell phone was just yelling outloud!
hahahaha wow! born right before the war ended! So does that make you a Baby Boomer? I can only read about 1944 in my history textbook. I must give kudos to you for being able to use a high tech computer, being so old and all....
Well, actually I started working with computers at a bank in 1965, it used \'punch cards\' to run the programs and data, and tape drives as big as a vending machines to record data. Our printer actually had type-writer type cloth ribbon to print with mechanical keys. It was a stand alone machine as big as most office style copiers are today. Then, when I went to U of H I aced my computer science class learning a scientific program called Fortran IV, then I did post baccalaureate work in 6 more hours of computer science. I used a computer when I was an appraiser that was before Microsoft took over, and we actually had to tell the machine to load the DOS...the disc operating system, which we all know now as microsoft, or all those other operating systems used now. Pretty neat huh! For an old gheezer! (Actually I was a \'War Baby\', the \'Baby Boomers\' were a result of all those healthy young men coming home from the war to play with all those lonely young women. ;>)
My mother was born in 1940 but I don\'t think she would ever dream of going back to school.
Having had arrested development because of codependency deludes me into thinking I\'m still young...go figure! ;>)