wda Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 I'm 39 staring down 40. Hey dibbers, I still have my first 6h pencil, from high school. The drafting teacher said it would last a lifetime! But how do I sharpen my mouse? WDA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Jeff Mottle Posted September 25, 2003 Administrators Share Posted September 25, 2003 I'm 28 but everyone usually thinks I'm much older for some reason, that is until they meet me in person and are surprised that I am not 40. I think I was born 40 anyway. My first computer was when I was 12 or 13. It was an IBM PS/2 Model 25. Think it had a whopping 256K of memory. We splurged for the Math-coprocessor so it could play games better. Back in the days of Police Quest and Leisure Suit Larry. I'm sure a few of you remember those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawyer Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 I am 29 will be 30 March 31. My first compt was a 286 (screaming maching for '87) I played Leisure Suite Larry & the Land of the Lounge Lizards, PQ, Space Quest, Kings Quest (all Sierra game). But then I really didn't pick up another compt till a few years ago. I actually took my 286 to college in 92. I think I left it in my dorm room as it wasn't worth sending home. My first love was Sp F/X. I loved the gore and model making and all the toys of the big movies. Then late 80's it was clear the computers were the way special effects would go & I did not want to spend my life at a cpu. So I went into acting. Which lead to architecture which lead to sitting infront of a cpu all day & night. orangeno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerry Thompson Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 Hi Well I must be one of the oldest here, - 48 - and started computing with stacks of punch cards. My first computer was a Kaypro 10 - a CPM based system running on a Z80 CPU, 64Kb RAM with a whopping 10Mb FDD. We got excited at the introduction of the IBM PC XT, with 640Kb RAM, a monochrome (green) Hercules card running at 720x348 pixels for CAD and in colour, we could run AutoCAD on a CGA colour card at a resolution of 320 x 200 with 4 colours. EGA was a revolutionary at 640 x 350 pixels and VGA (640 x 480) 16 colour was light-years away. God how things have changed. Kerry Thompson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaguar lover Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 32, started out on an Amiga 500 at age 15. Mostly painting. Around 1990 I fell in love with Jaguars especially XJ series 3 with the V12 Engine. 1994 I got my first PC 486dx2-66(sold a car to finance it). Now Ive got double headache (broken gearbox and chrashing PCs). If any of you are interested in jaguars or beutiful cars.. I´will listen.. /Kent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Looks like i'm the youngest here so far... just turned 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 31 first computer was a zx-81 (which is faster than my freekin P100 laptop i've got now :ngeupset: :ngeupset: :ngeupset: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Well I must be one of the oldest here, - 48 - and started computing with stacks of punch cards. Have you read Jim Gray's article about Storage Kerry? http://www.aceshardware.com/read_news.jsp?id=75000421 Knew someone here had to be an Amiga starter, with Lightwave etc. That is Dwright of course. Spent a lot of time myself talking to some Amiga users over at Aceshardware and all that thing with Commodore. How do you feel about that David? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da_RoCk Posted September 26, 2003 Author Share Posted September 26, 2003 Ey Craig, i guess your wrong... Im 21, dont worry we are one of the newer generation here... I guess. Ey, Jeff... Im sorry but i really thought that ur much older. Sorry to say this but i thought that you are at your late 30's. Im sorry but i guess im wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_A Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 I'm older than Jeff?!?!? I quit. How many of us said... "When I grow up I wan't to be a CGArchitect"??? Married with children at 33. First computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 with the 16k expansion pack in 1982. Apple IIe, III, an IBM/AT, Mac IIsi, 7100, G4, and the TiG4. From what I remember, at "work" it all started with a 286 and Windows 3.1. Does anybody remember the Wacom Koala Pad??? A friend had it on his Atari 800. Ohhh, the graphics he could 'draw' with that thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard McCarthy Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Aren't we all old bunch of X-Gen LOL Wow, after doing a degree and then came back to do another (BArch), I felt really old now. Those youngering.. lol ... I just turn 27. hmmm.. time flies... Still remembers my first computer when I was 13, it was a sweet 386-SX 20mhz.. it had a WOOPING 2mb of memory (!) and a modem (!) I was the envy of the block ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Read about yourselves here guys. This article is about the X-Gen Thousands of young people -- the so-called Generation X -- abandoned their hometowns and headed for Austin and other new meccas. More than a third of U.S. cities lost members of Generation X in the 1990s. Pittsburgh, Syracuse, N.Y., Buffalo, Cleveland, Springfield, Mass., Youngstown, Ohio and Dayton, Ohio, all lost shares of people ages 20 to 34 in 2000. Austin was a prime beneficiary of this mass movement of the young and talented.Brian O' Hanlon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da_RoCk Posted September 26, 2003 Author Share Posted September 26, 2003 Ey, Chris. Good day to all i assumed that none of us planned to be CGarchitects from the start of our education. I mean... In 1987, Manual Things were always better than Computers... but hell...that was before huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RezMAN Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Just turned 27 a few days ago... When I was 8 or so I took a computer programming class... Never looked back since. My first computer was the good old C=64 with a tape drive, loading a game took about half an hour... Then, quite a few years later I bought my first PC/286 XT VGA graphics WOW... 1MB ram and a turbo button for that lighting fast 12/MHz... he, he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RezMAN Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Just turned 27 a few days ago... When I was 8 or so I took a computer programming class... Never looked back since. My first computer was the good old C=64 with a tape drive, loading a game took about half an hour... Then, quite a few years later I bought my first PC/286 XT VGA graphics WOW... 1MB ram and a turbo button for that lighting fast 12/MHz... he, he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Eloy Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 I'm 26 and about to get married (no kids! ) First computer was a MSX...back in 1987...I remember it was as powerful as the first Nintendo 8-bit consoles....And my first atempt on CGI was Batman's face, inspired by the comic book Digital Justice, by Pepe Moreno... And time flies.... :angedead: [] Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 I am amazed at just how similar in age people here are. I mean, it is quite rare to find these kind of demographics. It would be interesting Jeff to compile some kind of pole or something, and have a graph to indicate this information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Jeff Mottle Posted September 26, 2003 Administrators Share Posted September 26, 2003 I did: http://www.cgarchitect.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=000032 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwright Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 garethace: about what in particular? The old Amiga/Commodore days? or about contemporary hardcore Amiga fanatics that think that they are finally going to take over the world? :ebiggrin: :ebiggrin: :ebiggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 37. First computer Amiga 500. First app Sculpt 3D, or something like that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted September 27, 2003 Share Posted September 27, 2003 Thanks, Jeff. I even voted on that pole myself but forgot about it! David, I am refering to the stories I have heard about Commodore's total lack of brains and balls - or any clue how to market/develop and run with the great products they owned back then. From what I have heard, from sources I know and respect, is that Commodore should really have done better. In fairness, but they managed to screw it up altogether. Same with DEC and the Alpha, DEC Unix products etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEE Posted September 27, 2003 Share Posted September 27, 2003 43 Sliderule Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 28, 2003 Share Posted September 28, 2003 26 years old first machine MO-5 only.. and a CBS console at ten years, whith a friend, were copying thousands of programming lines (from papers we found)... to make a "tennis" game work on it went back to computers Laaateeeer, after having been concentrated on girls from 14 to 22 years old began then cg whith autocad and 3ds max at architecture school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted September 28, 2003 Share Posted September 28, 2003 just check my birthdate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Iwazawa Posted September 28, 2003 Share Posted September 28, 2003 Im 23. My first computer was a Pentium II 350. I spent some months playing with Paintbrush until i discovered photoshop... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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