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Anonymous
yeh my first pc computers were a commodore 64 and a Ibm pc-jr.
then a tandy 286. had a amd-p75 with dos and deskview-X which
was first intro into unix world. later installed slackware 3.2 on it.
still have the pc with the slack install on it. it’s still able to boot
in 2021 on original mid 90’s hardware.
Brian Masinick
I didn’t buy my own system until I got a book with Slackware and another Linux CD at work. That was in 1995.
I used the first computer in 1973.
That was an HP minicomputer.I later used UNIVAC, DEC, and Intel computer systems in college and IBM computer systems at the first job, and Honeywell, Cyber and a few others. The more I think about it, I have probably used between a half dozen and a dozen brands and nearly as many operating systems.
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ThakurMsh
There are very serious people here on this forum.
I feel very small and insignificant – but that’s not a bad thing;
humility is always a plus.
I’m already 51 years old, but I’ve only been using a computer for a couple of years.
I started immediately with Ubuntu, a month later I switched to debian and now I run between debian and antiX )))))seaken64
Happy New Year!
I echo our thanks to anticapitalista and the developers team. antiX is a great tool and a job well done.
@Brian and @linuxdaddy, I wanted a C64 very badly when I was in high school. Couldn’t raise the money then. But I had a room mate who had one and I was able to borrow it once in awhile. I started learning computer on a PET in about 1978. The first personal computer I bought myself was a Tandy 1400FD portable PC running DOS 3.3. I can relate to the thinning and grey hair.
@ThakurMsh, one does not need a lot of computer history to become proficient in Linux. Linux is free and open source so it encourages learning and experimenting. This approach is more similar to how we learned with the PET and C64 or Apple II than it has been with some other proprietary Operating Systems we are all familiar with. We’re glad you came on board even if only recently.
seaken64
ThakurMsh
We’re glad you came on board even if only recently.
I was once told by a friend that there is such a thing as open source and the society of programmers in this mood.
I really liked it and was inspired to try it ))) .
this is very similar to the brahmanic approach to life. )))
https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/18/42/
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It’s never too late- This reply was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by ThakurMsh.
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Brian Masinick
@seaken64: I always worked in places where computer systems were plentiful.
In my first professional job our overall business used primarily mainframe computer systems but I worked in the corporate communications organization so I found many forms of voice and data communication.We had message switching hardware that was able to communicate with the slowest teletype devices up to the most current high speed interfaces available at the time (which were still pretty slow at 4800 Baud, but rapidly increasing in speed.
Most of the need for the system was to handle those old devices.
Even as I worked on that project the microcomputer and small chips had been invented. Two years after I began my professional career the IBM PC legitimized the use of very small systems.
Within a year I joined a different project to assess PC and department computing and we started working on what became known as ‘3 tier computing’ and later ‘cliemt-server’ computing.
I get an opportunity to experiment with the MULTICS operating system and several UNIX department systems. In fact the cool MULTICS system was a small project in the personnel systems group.
From there I joined a research project to assess PC and department computing to reduce loaded mainframe computer systems. That’s what led me to UNIX. The combination of UNIX and telecommunications background led me to my second job at Digital Equipment Corporation, where I was a systems engineer for telephony markets, and later a UNIX department engineer for I18N and L10N – internationalization and localization.
I went from that into contract testing Y2K and financial services projects.
Most of them involved UNIX and Linux software and one of them was a UNIX to Linux migration.The majority of the high end stuff I used was at work; the stuff I bought at home was to either experiment with Linux or to have multiple ways to work remotely.
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Brian MasinickBrian Masinick
Now I’m retired and starting to forget a lot of the things I learned and I am not current with the latest software development languages and apps.
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Brian MasinickBrian Masinick
There are very serious people here on this forum.
I feel very small and insignificant – but that’s not a bad thing;
humility is always a plus.
I’m already 51 years old, but I’ve only been using a computer for a couple of years.
I started immediately with Ubuntu, a month later I switched to debian and now I run between debian and antiX )))))You are doing very well and you have shared several helpful things already.
You can feel however you choose; I am happy to see you here and I look forward to anything you choose to ask or share.
Happy New Year!
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Brian Masinickex_Koo
Thanks to everyone from antiX it’s pleasure doing business with you all.
Happy New Year to antiX
caprea
A happy and healthy new year to all !
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