Old farts and new Linux (was: new FC1 install problems)

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 08 May 2004 18:36, Bill Diamond wrote:
>On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 01:05, Gregory Woodbury wrote:
>> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 09:10:14PM -0400, Bill Diamond wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 11:00, Steve Searle wrote:
>> > > Around 03:44pm on Monday, May 03, 2004 (UK time), duncan brown 
scrawled:
>> > > > and i don't mean to insult you in anyway, but... i wonder
>> > > > who's the oldest computer literate linux user out there?  i
>> > > > sort of have the mentality of the hippies back in the
>> > > > 60s/70s, don't trust anyone over 30 =] ... it's hard for me
>> > > > to believe that someone over 30 uses linux personally, once
>> > > > you're over 30 you have to start thinking more like a
>> > > > manager =]... then again, i'm almost over that line, but i
>> > > > don't feel like i'm that close =]
>> > >
>> > > Well I'm 43 and have 5 PCs/Servers in my study running
>> > > Gnu/Linux.  I started as a trainee programmer on a Honeywell
>> > > maiunframe in '79.
>> > >
>> > > And I know there are plenty older and more skilled than me.
>> >
>> > Ditto. I'm pushing 44, and I have three Linux servers and two
>> > WinPCs.
>> >
>> > Please, sonny.  We grandpappys were programming Unix before you
>> > were even conceived of.    Hell, I was programming Bell Version
>> > 3 back in 1980.
>> >
>> > So, y'all hush up now and respect your elders :-)
>>
>> In 1980 it was Bell Labs "Edition 7" (based on the User's Manual
>> edition).
>
>We were a source code licensee for BV3.  It had some interesting
>trapdoors.  My particular favorite was the ability to run su and
> fail it three times in a row.  It made you root.  Lots of work went
> into weeding out the various odd bits like that and we stuck with
> it.  Sort of forked our own development path.

Chuckle.  Its just goes to prove that nothing is infallible.  
Particularly us humans who write code.:)

>> Me?  In 1958 I was keypunching FORTRAN decks for my dad at age 5.
>> Played with computers and teletypes and all sorts of fun stuff all
>> my life.  Began UNIX with Edition 6 in 1978 at Duke, helped with
>> the establishment of Usenet,  consulted at Bell Labs, did the NYC
>> thing for a few years, then a few (15) years as departmental guru.
>>  Hit Linux with kernel 0.94 and Slackware, then RedHat 2.x and
>> have been a RH fan ever since.  I'm only 50, but I've been a
>> computer user for longer than most.
>
>I take it that must have been a bit of a challenge.  I mean, just
>putting a control card on the drum of the 024 would have been a
> problem at that height!
>

They didn't furnish ladders?  Gee... 8-)

>
>Bill

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