What age did you get into Techie stuff?

pchelpman

LittleJo wrote:

Hi,
Would be interested when BROWNTOA, WOLFMAN and PCHELPMAN started.
JO

Oh dear. You had to ask, didn't you. Not too many of us oldies round here.

Ok here goes ... techie background ...

born ... 1955 ...meccano and lego from early on.

first electric train set when I was 5 ... pulled it to bits a few years later rather than play with it "properly". Drove my parents mad. Not surprising when you consider how much they must have spent on it. Managed to put it all back together again though and, yes, it still worked.

Science A levels 1974 then on to a degree in electronic engineering (didn't finish it, unfortunately, due to almost being killed in a road accident part way through the course!).

Dismantling/fixing/repairing/upgrading computers ... from 1999.

PC security specialism c. 2001. Joined ASAP ... http://asap.maddoktor2.com/

Formal college computer qualifications 2004.

So now you know.


PCH

culpepper

I bought my spectrum 48k after watching the bbc micro program on tv on Sundays(1982 I think) I was 20. The BBC was about £300 without the monitor ,the speccy was £120 in woolworths with the hobbit game and book and you could plug it into the telly ,it was 16 colour,you had to buy a cassette recorder seperately.
I learnt to program it in basic.
In 1994 we got a bbc model b and monitor from a boot fair for about £15 and I learnt to program in bbc basic.
1995 we got a commodore 64 and drives etc for £30 from my OH's friend at work and 1996 ,an amiga 500 for free being thrown away.We upgraded to amiga a1200 trading in the 500,I learnt Amos basic and taught it to DS who was 8.1997 we got our first PC 2nd hand for £300. I learnt visual basic 4 and taught DS.I built my first PC in 1999 and taught DS how to build one using the old one to practice on.
DS did city in guilds computer programming 3 years ago aged 15. He was going to take A level IT but it was a bit pathetic:p
I've tried to learn C++ but i always get to the objects bit and am drowned in jargon :mad:

Darksun

culpepper wrote:

I've tried to learn C++ but i always get to the objects bit and am drowned in jargon :mad:

Java is a good language to get your head around Object Oriented programming, and makes moving onto C++ easier.

Blackjack_Davy

I'm 41. I've been interested in electrics and electronics since I was a kid I used to love messing about with it much to my parents' chagrain. When I was in college I saw my first computer, a BBC Micro. I was very wary of this strange machine at first but when I got my hands on it I fell in love with it. Learnt to program it in BASIC and machine code assembly language. I bought my first machine, an Acorn Electron soon afterwards and later a BBC Master 128 and then an Archimedes. I bought my first PC many years later and I've had 2 more since then both of which I built myself. I've just built an Intel core 2 duo machine which I'm using now. I don't work in IT funnily enough it's just a hobby. Always has been, always will be.