Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

2007-04-15 Thread Mike Markowski
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 KR C book from then. I remember being told not to run 'vi' when too many people were on because it would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

2007-04-15 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
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 KR C book from then. I remember being told not to run 'vi' when too many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

2007-04-14 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant Edwards said the following on 2007-04-13 23:57: ... That brings back memories. A SOL-20 was the first microcomputer computer I used. I believe it was 1980. 48K of RAM and two 8 Pertec floppy drives. Before you could boot CP/M from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

2007-04-14 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:52:40 Tony Stohne wrote: hehe, there are some experienced guys ( gals?) on the list. I'm 44. I remember Imsai 8080, Apple II/III and others. In Sweden we had those little boxes known as ABC80 (and later ABC800 with 16 colors and somewhat better graphical resolution).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

2007-04-14 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Novensiles divi Flamen said the following on 2007-04-14 14:43: On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:52:40 Tony Stohne wrote: ... Other boxes are PDP11/70, various PET/Commodore, Ataris et al. I'm felling a huge wave of nostalghia here :) We learned about some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

2007-04-14 Thread Ralf Stephan
You wrote I'm 44. I remember Imsai 8080, Apple II/III and others. In Sweden we had those little boxes known as ABC80 (and later ABC800 with 16 colors and somewhat better graphical resolution). Other boxes are PDP11/70, various PET/Commodore, Ataris et al. I'm felling a huge wave of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

2007-04-14 Thread Dale
Tony Stohne wrote: hehe, there are some experienced guys ( gals?) on the list. I'm 44. I remember Imsai 8080, Apple II/III and others. In Sweden we had those little boxes known as ABC80 (and later ABC800 with 16 colors and somewhat better graphical resolution). Other boxes are PDP11/70,

[gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

2007-04-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-04-13, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-04-13, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry? from Vodafone ??z???(??j)b? bst== I'm 64. Gentoo since 1999. I started

[gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-04-13, Wayne Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In not using gentoo that long. Just started previous summer but learning fast. ;) Well, gentoo didn't exist 10 years ago, but yggdrasil and slackware did. And Redhat, the first distro I managed to get my hangs on! Redhat 4 I believe

[gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-04-13, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry? from Vodafone ??z???(??j)b? bst== I'm 64. Gentoo since 1999. I started with CP/M on a processor Technology SOL-20 in 1979 or