Guest guest Posted April 4, 2002 Report Share Posted April 4, 2002 Lou, This " younger fellow " is elgible for Medicare this month. I was " programming " computers to make type for printing presses (punch tape) as early as 1954 as a part time job. I programmed my first real computer however, in 1968 which took the basement of a city block building - an IBM 360-65. That whole computer had only 360k of RAM so programs could not exceed that limit (my desk computer has 256 meg of RAM and runs out at times). But most people I know, at my age do NOT have a lot of computer knowledge. Desktops are really less than 20 years old. I got my Zenith 110 ($2700 for 128k of RAM at 5 khz and 12 " monochrome monitor) in July 1983 about a year after the first ones. But both my 8 and 18 y.o. grandsons know almost as much about computers as I do. And they both can program websites better than I can. Take care, Bill Werre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- lou Reynolds wrote: > Sam first worked with computers in 1952 analog computers, of course, and as > a mathematician went on from there all his life. He loved working with > them and writing " elegant functions. " However, his skills never rubbed off > on me. but we have had a succession of computers for many years, and I like > to fool around with the e-mail and do a few things.. So Bill, you younger > fellows aren't the only ones who know computers. Lou Reynolds. > > If you do not wish to belong to shydrager, you may > unsubscribe by sending a blank email to > > shydrager-unsubscribe > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 4, 2002 Report Share Posted April 4, 2002 Hi Bill et al. Have to say the first IBM PC was 1978. But it came intended as an 'intelligent terminal' at first. First stand-alone IBM PC was 1979. By '83 there was the '286' with 'Hercules Graphics' and a 10MB hard drive! or around then (without a doubt the most unreliable heap I ever put on my desk, the first and last 'IBM' IBM PC I ever owned)' I just buy the bits now, and renew what I want, these days. OOO what memories.. almost another lifetime! ;-) -- from Brine - brian@...> Written at 19:11:37 on 04-04-2002 I noted that on Thu, 04 Apr 2002 12:20:02 -0500, b.werre@...> wrote: > > Lou, > >This " younger fellow " is elgible for Medicare this month. I was " programming " >computers to make type for printing presses (punch tape) as early as 1954 as a >part time job. I programmed my first real computer however, in 1968 which took >the basement of a city block building - an IBM 360-65. That whole computer had >only 360k of RAM so programs could not exceed that limit (my desk computer has >256 meg of RAM and runs out at times). But most people I know, at my age do >NOT have a lot of computer knowledge. Desktops are really less than 20 years >old. I got my Zenith 110 ($2700 for 128k of RAM at 5 khz and 12 " monochrome >monitor) in July 1983 about a year after the first ones. > >But both my 8 and 18 y.o. grandsons know almost as much about computers as I >do. And they both can program websites better than I can. > >Take care, Bill Werre > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >lou Reynolds wrote: > >> Sam first worked with computers in 1952 analog computers, of course, and as >> a mathematician went on from there all his life. He loved working with >> them and writing " elegant functions. " However, his skills never rubbed off >> on me. but we have had a succession of computers for many years, and I like >> to fool around with the e-mail and do a few things.. So Bill, you younger >> fellows aren't the only ones who know computers. Lou Reynolds. >> >> If you do not wish to belong to shydrager, you may >> unsubscribe by sending a blank email to >> >> shydrager-unsubscribe >> >> >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2002 Report Share Posted April 5, 2002 Bill: The day my four-year-old grandson sat on my lap as I was trying to figure out how to get the game he wanted to play on my computer to come up was when I realized that a new generation was taking hold. He was four years old and the preschool he attended was teaching them to use a computer. He turned to me and said, " In school, Grandma, they let us do it ourselves. " love, Barbara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2002 Report Share Posted April 5, 2002 Bill: The day my four-year-old grandson sat on my lap as I was trying to figure out how to get the game he wanted to play on my computer to come up was when I realized that a new generation was taking hold. He was four years old and the preschool he attended was teaching them to use a computer. He turned to me and said, " In school, Grandma, they let us do it ourselves. " love, Barbara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2002 Report Share Posted April 5, 2002 Bill: The day my four-year-old grandson sat on my lap as I was trying to figure out how to get the game he wanted to play on my computer to come up was when I realized that a new generation was taking hold. He was four years old and the preschool he attended was teaching them to use a computer. He turned to me and said, " In school, Grandma, they let us do it ourselves. " love, Barbara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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