Mike Markowski wrote:
> Tony Stohne wrote:
>   
>> hehe, there are some experienced guys (& gals?) on the list.
>> I'm 44...
>>     
>
> I'm also 44, have been using Unix since 1981 and still have my hardback
> book on the PDP 11/70 and my K&R C book from then.  I remember being
> told not to run 'vi' when too many people were on because it would slow
> the machine down.  :-)  (Bad info it seems, but funny now.)  My first pc
> unix was in 1991 and I forget if it was BSDFree or FreeBSD.  X11 dist
> was X386.  I'm pretty sure the OS was version 0.1.  I remember loading
> floppy after floppy after floppy to get the os on, then it took a long
> time for X to start up with the disk grinding away.  I also remember
> earlier days as a teen never being able to convince my parents to spring
> for the $500 TRS-80 or Heathkit...  :-)
>
>   
I remember the TRS-80!  I also was brought up on the CBM or Commodore 
PET (green screen with cassette tape drive). I started programming in 
early 1983 using BASIC on the Commodore PET.  Same CPU as the Apple IIe 
(and Apple IIc).  The release of the Commodore 64 was a God send, with 
my first real option to write graphics and sound code along with 
eventually writing my own assembler because I couldn't afford to buy one 
;-)  64KB was SO MUCH MEMORY back then!  Oh yes, I am 35 years old.

Tom Veldhouse