Age

[O. Sharp]

Nico de Jong wrote, in part:

> It could be interesting to know the age"spread" of thist list contributors,
> and how long we've had the computer virus under our skin.

I'm 44, born 1960, and first got the "bug" with a PDP-8/I they had in high 
school. Happily, a year or so after I graduated they made the switch to 
micros and I was able to get that selfsame 8/I, documentation, paper 
tapes, service log and all. I'm still hopeful of finding a -12 to 
supplement it.  :)

...What do you suppose demand for our older machines will be like after 
we're gone? I can't help but think a lot of ours are being preserved 
because they're nostalgic to us, "the machines we grew up on"; and a 
generation from now, the interest is going to be on machines _that_ 
generation grew up on. (_That's_ scary. Think that owning Windoze ME 
might eventually be thought of as exciting. <g>) When we start kicking 
our respective buckets, who will collect our estates' old iron? And how 
much dedication, garage space and repair knowledge will _they_ have, I 
wonder?...

...Oh, I see. Sorry! Somebody left this flag active.  :)
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                     -O.-