Subj : 2025 FTSC election
To : Vincent Coen
From : Jason Bock
Date : Mon Feb 24 2025 08:00 pm
VC>
VC> Hello Jason!
VC>
VC> 24 Feb 25 18:00, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:
VC>
VC>
VC> > Keeping busy. Thank you to BBSing (since 5th grade) and Fidonet, I
VC> > became passionate and knew I would love to work with computers. I had
VC> > my first computer at 3 or 4 (1979/1980). I started with a Texas
VC> > Instruments TI-99/4 then moved to a TI-994A with an expansion unit. I
VC> > hada blast!
VC>
VC> > I should look into doing more with IPv6 as it has been in the back of
VC> > my mind for a while.
VC>
VC> My experience is a little earlier as my first computer was a IBM 1401 and
VC> a
VC> 7094 around 1963 as an operator for both. Moved to programming around the
VC> same
VC> time programming in machine code -> Autocode -> Cobol before also playing
VC> with
VC> ICL 1501, 1900's and new range 29/39's and lots of others including
VC> Burroughs,
VC> Honeywell, Univac, Cray, DEC (8/11) Elliot 803 and the very first
VC> programmable
VC> computer available commercially the EE Leo 3 although technically the Leo
VC> 2
VC> was
VC> one as well but was not made available to purchase.
VC>
VC> There is a wee stack of systems I have missed here.
VC>
VC> My children played with computers in the early 80's with the oldest doing
VC> so
VC> around 1983/4 on two US imported very large kits, and built by me in the
VC> mid
VC> 70's before I let them loose on Cromemco Z3 constellations running Cromix
VC> (*nix).
VC>
VC> Vincent
VC>
VC>
VC> --- Mageia Linux v9 X64/Mbse v1.1.0/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20240309
VC> * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)
