View Poll Results: When did you get first computer, home and work
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got my first taste of a computer before 1980
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Early adopter, got my first before 1990, many since
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Only at work or home, between 1990 and 2000
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One at work and one at home, 1990 – 2000
16 17.98% -
2 -10 computers at home and work, 1990-2000
15 16.85% -
More than 10 at home and work, 1990-2000
4 4.49%
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02-12-2008 11:51 AM #1
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Poll: you and computers
EDIT 8/2/10 Let's see if newer folk have anything to add.
I'm curious about when you folks embraced computers. Please mark the appropriate catagory as applies to you AFTER reading all the choices because more than one may apply but I'd like to see the one most applicable to your situation.Last edited by Bob Parmenter; 08-02-2010 at 06:33 AM.
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02-12-2008 11:57 AM #2
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Don't see the survey Bob.
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02-12-2008 12:03 PM #3
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Need one more catagory Bob. I didn't get mine at home till 2003 and didn't use one at work till 2004.
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02-12-2008 12:13 PM #4
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Pat, looks like others can see it so you may need to clean your cache or reboot/log off-on.
Pops, that's outside the window I am looking at right now, but so you and anyone else can be part of it go ahead and just put a response in text as you've done above. Thanks.Your Uncle Bob, Senior Geezer Curmudgeon
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02-12-2008 12:13 PM #5
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Maybe one of his pole dancin aquaitences borrowed it........
I have seen some pics he has posted ,those ladies look suspect to me......Its gunna take longer than u thought and its gunna cost more too(plan ahead!)
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02-12-2008 12:15 PM #6
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I'm not sure....how do I know if I'm using a computer......? 
Sometimes NOW are the "good old days"...
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02-12-2008 12:18 PM #7
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Originally Posted by Firechicken
I'm not sure....how do I know if I'm using a computer......?
You lived down wind of the Asarco plant too long didn't you!?
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02-13-2008 06:18 AM #8
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Poll does NOT show up for me either. Originally Posted by PatMonaco
What operating system are you using?
My cache is empty (just before launching Internet Explorer).
EDIT: Found the poll on page 2 of this thread.Last edited by Frisco; 02-13-2008 at 06:20 AM.
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02-13-2008 08:36 AM #9
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Actually,though I don't think this is what Bob had in mind, the first computer I had any dealing with was part of an anti mortar radar set I worked on in '62 while in the employ of Uncle Sam. I didn't realize the significance of the binary system then as at 18 I was more interested in chasing skirts.
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02-13-2008 08:40 AM #10
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A donated IBM 360 in high school (1970-74). Don't remember if it had a bona-fide OS with it, but I do remember the boot loader requiring you to set set 16 DIP switches and press a "load" button, then repeat 20-30 more times. Did everything in direct machine language on IBM punch cards. No assemblers or compilers, no word processors to write the code with. Mis-type one keystroke and you get to start the card over (80 characters per card).
My first home PC was built around 1978 or so. Myself and one of the other Jr engineers took a "spare" DEC LSI 11/03 card cage home and built a small chassis for it. Had the power of the shop's DEC mainframe but in a nice small desktop package. Two 8" SS-SD floppy drives that gave around 180kB of storage each. One disc carried an abbreviated version of the RTX OS, along with a BASIC tokenizer and a FORTRAN 4 compiler. The second disk was for your application program and data storage.
Currently have a workstation at the shop using XP-Pro, and a Dell laptop at home with SUSE linux. Tried to run Umbunto on the Dell but gave up after three nights due to video issues.
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02-13-2008 08:46 AM #11
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Bob,
You have to go way back to my first computer. A slab of granite and hammers and chisels.
Actually it was back in the late 50s and early 60s and the things took up two stories and had to be programmed by wiring between terminals. They also had thousands of relays and were very slow.
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02-13-2008 08:57 AM #12
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I resemble that remark. Originally Posted by DennyW
Sounds like some of you guys are truly antiques.
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i hate computers
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Ok, so I added another choice
I was a Unix man in a DOS world back in the early 80's 
Last edited by mrmustang; 02-12-2008 at 02:07 PM.
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02-13-2008 01:20 AM #15
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Originally Posted by mrmustang
Ok, so I added another choice I was a Unix man in a DOS world back in the early 80's
Oh sure, that's just great! Tamper with the data and skew all of the survey results. Destroy the pure scientifically collected results we could have had. Go ahead and add items that weren't selectable by the rest of us....Now we'll never know what the true results would have been. I can see that you were a rebel back then and time hasn't changed you....sheesh!
Unix huh?
I spent some time with Linux a while back. Wish I had more time to learn it. Just not high enough on my list of priorities though I guess.
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