Subj : 2025 FTSC election
To   : Vincent Coen
From : Jason Bock
Date : Mon Feb 24 2025 20:00:22

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> 
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Vincent,

Very cool.  Those were the good old days.  ;)

-Jason

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