Re: If not "newbie" then ????
On Saturday 21 July 2018 11:42:31 Richard Owlett wrote:
> When I'm "ignorant" and know it, I refer to myself as a "newbie".
> My first contact with Linux was when Squeeze was just introduced.
> I've been around computers for a while [remember 12AX7 based CPU's?].
No, but I recall seeing, in Iowa City in the very early 1950's, a bit of
a monster that had 12,000 12AU7's in it. Used at the time to grade the
Iowa tests, the same one I had taken in school and got a quite high
score on. They had rigged a Harris Stream fed printing press with a
photocell at every mark location on the paper and were calculating the
scores from that.
> As a BSEE student 50+ years ago I took an introductory programming
> course. Later I programmed in 8080 assembler - at the time we were
> moving to 8085. As a consumer I ended up in the M$ land.
I started with the rca 1802. Still an interesting architecture, one that
was able to function in several rads a minute of atomic radiation. But I
tried the z-80, found it wanting, then the 6809 which put me firmly on a
unix like path, and to this day I still don't have a winders box on the
premises. Quite a few linux machines though.
And I'm still a new bee... But a fading one due to the age of the wet
ram now.
> So, how would this group have me to refer to myself without claiming
> competency I just *DO NOT* have?
>
> P.S. I've saved ~6 years of useful posts from this group. I've been
> trying to figure out how to organize it in order to create a QWSBFA
> rather than a FAQ. QWSBFA=="Questions Which Should Be Frequently
> Asked" ;/
That sounds like a heck of a usefull project.
> OWL ducks fer cover ;}
If you find a good cover, see if there's room for me too.
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