Baldmountain, I don't know if you are older from a more affluent background, or actually younger. All through undergrad we used punch cards submitted to the data center wrapped in rubber bands. The punch card machines were hidden in stairwells around campus. Terminal time was too expensive for our department... The National Labs were more sophisticated – batch processing through modeling programs... but surprisingly a summer job at a start up was even better. We were doing a networked instrumentation system for nuclear power plants: Instrumentation carts polled by PDP-11s reporting to redundant VAX 11780s driving graphical displays that communicated state information to the control room... I think about the same time an economics teacher from high school was using a Tandy or TRS 80 to predict football opponents' play calling tendencies based on game context: down, distance, clock,... Anyway, I don't think you are the oldest.
Ed On May 6, 9:12 am, baldmountain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The prizes are nice, but that is not what it's about. It's a new > platform to explore that is not Windows. With the BeOS it was about a > new OS designed using the latest software engineering techniques > rather than as a mutation of an OS designed in the 70s for a 8 bit > microprocessor. I love platforms. I love to learn about them and take > them apart to figure out how all the pieces fit together. The best way > to do this is to build something using the platform. I wasn't planning > on submitting anything to the ADC but one thing lead to another and > the app I started to explore Android turned into something usable so I > submitted it. The same thing happened with the BeOS. > > On May 6, 9:34 am, Incognito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Why don't you go mainstream rather then with an unknown operating > > system? Only reason I'm with this new operating system is because of > > the cash prices. Although, now that I look at it my chances are quite > > slim if not nil.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
