What is the average demography of TE members?

How old are you?

  • 10-15

    Votes: 2 0.7%
  • 16-20

    Votes: 15 5.0%
  • 21-25

    Votes: 63 21.1%
  • 26-30

    Votes: 60 20.1%
  • 31-35

    Votes: 76 25.4%
  • 36-40

    Votes: 41 13.7%
  • 41-50

    Votes: 31 10.4%
  • 50+

    Votes: 7 2.3%
  • 0-10

    Votes: 4 1.3%

  • Total voters
    299
Yep, going on 71 :)
Not much computing to do in the old days - microprocessors hadn't been invented yet and programming was for mainframe computers and the like.

I dabbled in programming while attending special classes at IIT, Kanpur. A team of us plotted the course for Armstrong & Co.'s trip to the moon on an IBM 1620. The memory was all of 40 kilobytes which was large in both capacity and physical size - it filled a room! We used punched cards and magnetic reels. :D
Wow. 71.

I did a deal with him and expected him to be in his 20s. :eek:
 
Respect++ :)

Although I would really like to meet guys like you who have done actual programming on ancient things like the punched card.
Who knows, maybe we'll meet one of these days. I sometimes visit or pass through Kolkata, although I don't travel much these days. I used to shop for electronic parts in Madan St. and Chandni Chowk, Kolkata. Lajpat Rai Market in Delhi and Lamington Road in Bombay/Mumbai, and to a lesser extent in Ritchie St., Chennai. Never been to Bangalore though.

I used to have a regular supplier of computer parts from Old China Bazaar in the 2000's. I spent most of my time assembling computers for my clients during that period. Then it became a bit monotonous and I went back to my first love - electronics.
 
Most prob I'm the olde senior most member here.

I actually programmed a (8-bit) Z80 in assembly language. Developed a word processor, btw.
This one :

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LOL !
 
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