What age did you get into Techie stuff?

LittleJo

Hi,
Does
D2 -> MVC -> MOVE
give any clues ?
Jo

greyster

Born in 82 had a Spectrum from the age of 5. Can't really say I did much apart from playing games. Primary School in my last year I was sent down to help the infants every Friday afternoon. I think playing lots of different games helps your systemic knowledge in navigating through different applications.... as I don't seem to struggle with much.

Did A Level Computing and a degree in Computer Systems and Networks but found that my interest is in business analysis and how technology can be integrated into process and organisation. So my work really doesnt have any hands on IT anymore.

Still love it though and sort out my mates with IT.

martindow

I first used an electronic calculator in 1972. It was the size of a typewriter, one memory and cost the university about £1000 each (a lot of money in those days) but a fantastic thing compared to slide rules and log tables.

scheming_gypsy

born in '75 and had a Specturm 48k as a nipper and then a Commodore 64 but they were just for playing games and i wasn't 'interested' in technology / computers.
Then i stumbled into a part time job working in computers when i was 16 and still working in IT now but wouldn't say i was interested in it, it pays the bills and puts food on the table.

superscaper

Toxteth_OGrady wrote:

Started computing with an abacus in about 1961.

First bit of computing technology I owned was a Sinclair Scientific calculator using Reverse Polish Notation in 1973.



Who says it's a young person's game?

:cool:

TOG

My dad had one of those. Not sure if he still has it. He'd always go on about in those days you had to build the calculator yourself. Still looks nifty compared to tody's calculators, must be the LED display.

debs626

First computer I got my fingers on was a Acorn when I was 16 (YTS) student. Then the next one was a Nixdorf. Then I was given and Amstrad 286 in 1994, progressed onto an Olvetti (internet was then availabe) Have not looked back since and have always had a computer ticking away somewhere.

Makes me laugh now ....... I have a mobile phone that has 10x more memory than my first computer .............. he he he

I fitted my first stick of ram in 1995, and now I can build a pc from scratch, am I a tech head?

mikey-mike_2

martindow wrote:

I first used an electronic calculator in 1972. It was the size of a typewriter, one memory and cost the university about £1000 each (a lot of money in those days) but a fantastic thing compared to slide rules and log tables.

Same here, I was a physics technician and our university department had one calculator (rpn HP) which was chained to a bench and cost about a year of my wages.

We also had our own pdp11 which filled a room and had computing power somewhere between my toaster and my car (and probably closer to my toaster)

Cumbrian_Male

ringo_24601 wrote:

i'm a techie from birth.. born 1980, we had a ZX81 in 1979 then a BBC Micro in 1985. Learnt to program about then.. guess what, i work in IT now.

Just to stir things up a little i decided to do a degree in genetics. Not sure why, i think i liked jurassic park too much and i just saw the human genome as a big computer ready for me to program.

That is weird.

My sister was born in '80 and she has a degree in Human Genetics, is currently finishing her masters in Forensic Science. She is working in a crime lab and is trained to present evidence at trial.

[Deleted User]

Well, to stick the techie knife in a bit more, i did a MSc in 'Biosystems and Informatics' (computational biology), then did 2 1/2 years working in a uni working on rather high end cancer research stuff.

Ditched it all in because i decided working in academia sucks, now i've got a job in Healthcare IT (think big NHS IT project)

PS. My dad has one of those calculators pictured

hopefulfooluk

Born in '79 and started messing around with computers at about age 8. Got my very own Atari ST in about 1990 and started messing around with it trying to find out how it all worked. Quickly got banned from using it by my parents as they thought it was distracting me from my homework!!

Got my first PC in December 1993ish, 486 DX2 66 with 8MB RAM and 340MB hard drive. Ended up fixing all my parents' friends' computers when they broke from about age 13 - and never looked back.

I now have my own IT security company looking after small to medium sized businesses who don't have their own in-house IT department.