What age did you get into Techie stuff?

Loafer316

Wow...I was born in 1977 first computer was a commodore 64 then was bought a BBC Computer in 1985. They did cost alot of money back then. Moved onto PC's with a 286 and then a 486 DX66 with 4mb Ram and 80MB Harddrive that increased in size using a program called Stacker!! Moved on to make my own after that and have about four PC's around the house. My old X2600+ has now had its last day and infact my new Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 and motherboard have arrived this morning so will be putting that together.

Oh yeah i don't work in I.T i'm a Solicitor! :rolleyes: lol. Someone who wishes that they had gone into I.T as a career. Still might. Although i do get sick of people in the office ringing me to sort out there PC problems.

Interest in PC's usually fuells your interest in Hi-Fi, TV's, and all techie stuff in general. An expensive interest that is very hard to justify to the OH.!

amd

Since I got this age 15 in 1975! Thought it was the bees knees!

chralph

Hey

Im a techie now, did my ITIL training when i was 18 and a half and just finished my CCNA, now am 19 1/2 and working as a technician I failed all my A-levels, never went to uni, just got lucky i guess

Chris
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spacker_2

I have a MCSE, City and Guilds in IT parts 1,2,3 and also Bsc Hons in IT and computing and also a Qualified Cisco engineeer with cert's and all this took me 3yrs so if you dont want do take 3yrs out then dont as the IT sector is on a massive slowdown and not worth enetering at the moment no matter what computer training company tells you, Go for IT recruitment its better pay over the average and you dont really need much IT experience, do this first then go to night school if you wish to get into a specific field of IT like .NET

Mizz_Pink

My hubby had his first pc when he was aged 10, in 1983.

He now owns his own pc shop and is so busy , he is doing really well. After listening to him all the time, Ive never known anyone with so much knowledge. Its all about keeping up to date he keeps telling me !

We have just had delivered our 3rd lcd flat screen tv, we now have a 40", a 32" and a 20".

My dad takes the mick and worries when hubby isnt buying a new tv, video camera, stills camera or new pc :rotfl:

Ken68

The first computer I used was in 1954 in the Royal Artillery, big as a shed, on a trailer, armed guard at all times. Called a computator and used to calculate the angle of fire and range for Heavy Ack Ack regiments........http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/1394413.stm
Some advances since then, but often wish the computer designers would slow down a little, whilst I catch up :-))

oowson

At the age of three, while in a london theatre watching a production of Joseph and his technicoloured dream coat - except i was more interested in the lights than the production - have been doing theatre tech ever since, and obviously along with that goes all the computer techie ness, audio techie ness and general techie ness!!

Mike

HalleluiahMan

Got a ZX81 for my 12th birthday (just as everyone else seemed to be getting Spectrums, then C64s); All of my birthday presents were put together just to get it.

£40 for the 1K machine, then another £40 six months later for the 16K RAM expansion pack. BASIC was a great intro' to programming.

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Am I meant to feel aged because of all the youngsters posting who were BORN in 1980ish?

Darksun

I'm 19, I started playing around with computers when I was about 6, using an old Acorn Electron. I'm now in the 2nd year of a BSc Computer Science degree at Lancaster University.

Marlee

studentphil wrote:

Is it ever too late to get into techie stuff or is it a young person's game?

Never too late, Phil. My Mum started going to computer classes when she was over 80, because she wanted to look up all the web sites mentioned in her favourite television programmes. (She wouldn't let me teach her either - very independant my Mum)! She hasn't worked out e-mail, but she can do everything she needs. The main thing seems to be being interested and ready to take the challenge.