Subj : 2025 FTSC election
To   : Jason Bock
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Mon Feb 24 2025 23:43:04


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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