Your age rounded to the nearest decade

[Zenith77]

Floppies, Bah! The first program I wrote had to be stored on punch tape from a teletype.

Was it Call of Duty?

 

[Jmanchu]

30

 

[Zootonius]

Was it Call of Duty?

The frame rate of Call of Duty on a teletype was really bad.

 

[Zenith77]

The frame rate of Call of Duty on a teletype was really bad.

Oh, I know. Got even worse when it was ported to PC.

 

[AlinaX]

Floppies, Bah! The first program I wrote had to be stored on punch tape from a teletype.

I do remember when a computer used to be the size of a laboratory, but I'm very glad never to have needed to write programs on punch cards.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I’m feeling very young on here today.

So I don’t want any personally identifiable stuff. Just if you are 32, then 30. If you are 37, then 40. If you are 19, then 20.

I’m making an assumption we have no 100s and we really shouldn’t have anything less than 20, should we?

Thinking of drawing a histogram.

Em

Frankly, I'm feeling a little old here today. I also don't care who identifies me at this point; stalkers, come and get me if you can find me! And almost everybody I knew personally or was related to has passed or doesn't care what I'm doing now. So I'm 67, will be 68 next next month, class of 1955.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/XNQAAOSw-mFjtnHG/s-l1600.jpg

 

[gunhilltrain]

Floppies, Bah! The first program I wrote had to be stored on punch tape from a teletype.

Floppies, bah! I wrote on a 1949 Royal manual typewriter that my mom had bought for college.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Rounding down, 60.

(The number 66 in my moniker has nothing to with anything related to this site, but might mislead one or two)

 

[SimonDoom]

Rounding up, 60.

 

[Uk_Guy_93]

30! Not a lot of rounding to be done really

 

[EmilyMiller]

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Em

 

[AnonyMissWriter]

40

 

[HopelessDreams]

30

 

[Zenith77]

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Em

Given the distribution curve I really think you should swop from the 3.5in to the 5.25in.

 

[johmatthew]

60

 

[Polranny]

70

 

[AlinaX]

My dad had a ZX80 spectrum

Ooh! We had a ZX81 with - gasp! - a 16k ram pack.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Considering where some of the stories are going, I am soon expecting a statement like this:

"I remember when my good friend Jehovah decided to create Earth. I told him:
-Jehovah, my friend! I might be a little old, but heed my advice! Don't make the hills too steep nor the queues too long!"

I guess the big guy didn't really listen to that last advice...

 

[ColinPiper]

Ooh! We had a ZX81 with - gasp! - a 16k ram pack.

Was that the rubber keyboard?

Your Spectrums and Commodores and Ataris were toys compared to the real stuff - DEC computers and VT terminals - the ones used to invent UNIX and C.

Playing games like this only sets someone up to try to trump everyone by describing the day they dropped the stack of punched cards.

Oh, 50.

 

[Zenith77]

Playing games like this only sets someone up to try to trump everyone by describing the day they dropped the stack of punched cards.

Growing up, I'd write assembly language in charcoal on the walls of our cave while dad was out hunting woolly mammoths.

 

[AlinaX]

Was that the rubber keyboard?

Thin plastic. I remember the Spectrum had rubber keys.

 

[gunhilltrain]

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Em

We really have people in their eighties and nineties on here? Well, any day above ground is a good one.

 

[PennameWombat]

I'm old enough that the first computer program I wrote was in BASIC using a teletype terminal connected to a university's Univac mainframe. I used punch cards to write FORTRAN and COBOL class assignments to run on that same mainframe, but never used punch cards in any professional capacity. But my first 'real' programming job involved a computer that was so old you used toggle switches to key in the boot sequence.

But I was young enough to fall into the gap which meant I never had to register for the draft. This despite following my WWII veteran father's advice when I was in high school, "learn to type, the army always needs clerks."

If you haven't worked it out and since we're rounding, 60.

 

[NotWise]

70, soon enough to count.

 

[Pad_Foot]

60