Subj : 2025 FTSC election
To : Jason Bock
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Mon Feb 24 2025 11:43 pm
Hello Jason!
24 Feb 25 18:00, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:
> Keeping busy. Thank you to BBSing (since 5th grade) and Fidonet, I
> became passionate and knew I would love to work with computers. I had
> my first computer at 3 or 4 (1979/1980). I started with a Texas
> Instruments TI-99/4 then moved to a TI-994A with an expansion unit. I
> hada blast!
> I should look into doing more with IPv6 as it has been in the back of
> my mind for a while.
My experience is a little earlier as my first computer was a IBM 1401 and a
7094 around 1963 as an operator for both. Moved to programming around the same
time programming in machine code -> Autocode -> Cobol before also playing with
ICL 1501, 1900's and new range 29/39's and lots of others including Burroughs,
Honeywell, Univac, Cray, DEC (8/11) Elliot 803 and the very first programmable
computer available commercially the EE Leo 3 although technically the Leo 2
was
one as well but was not made available to purchase.
There is a wee stack of systems I have missed here.
My children played with computers in the early 80's with the oldest doing so
around 1983/4 on two US imported very large kits, and built by me in the mid
70's before I let them loose on Cromemco Z3 constellations running Cromix
(*nix).
Vincent
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