RE: Curious...Are most of you in tech-relatedcareers/schooling?
Phew.....
I remember when I was 8 years old, my first computer was one that I got from
a [then] photographer, a Radio Shack computer model MC-10, with 3k of memory
and with a built in Microsoft BASIC interpreter in it's firmware. That is
when I started doing BASIC programs, that thing used to plug in to the TV
just like the Atari 2600. Anyone here remember ENTER magazine?
Afterwards it was too much trouble to transcript the code listings in the
manual, so my dad bought me one of those tape recorders with special tape
you used to store the programs with, you could actually 'hear' the programs
downloading to the mighty 3K memory, sounded a lot like a 2400 baud modem.
I then got a 286 in 1992. I still have the same case with a pentium like-
Cirix 200 MMX in it. With debian and Windows98.
Ahhh, fond memories.
May the Force of the Dragon's Spirit be with you...In Accordance With The
Prophecy.
Happy Hacking, Bright Blessings and Gentle Breezes!
-*/ -= )O( Jay "CoolDragon" Arias-Chavez )O( =- /*-
"En el horizonte vertical yace el espejo de nuestra Alma."
"In the vertical horizon lies the mirror of our Soul."
- J. Arias-Chavez
~-----Original Message-----
~From: Chris Lale [mailto:ctlale@coolscience.co.uk]
~Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 1:37 PM
~To: Debian User list
~Subject: Re: Curious...Are most of you in
~tech-relatedcareers/schooling?
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~Scott --sidewalking-- wrote:
~> All,
~>
~> I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning
~> horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on
~> this list is a little out of my comprehension now, as I am so new,
~> but I am still taking general ed classes in college, and am hoping I
~> can survive the math classes to pursue a CS degree. There is a
~> class or two on Unix essentials or Unix internals, but that is all.
~> Some programming, of course, is involved.
~>
~> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
~> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
~> all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
~> long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Debian to these
~> levels that all of you are at?
~>
~> Just curious...
<SNIP>
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