EDIT: I made a follow up poll as from someone’s suggestion to this one: https://oldbytes.space/@SinclairSpeccy/113705509782999197

How long have you been using computers for?

I remember back when I was a little kid my first actual experience on a computer was on the janky XP machine I still own.

I’d play flash games and all before getting my own laptop running Windows 7 that had to get reset constantly because I don’t think anyone in my family know how to use an antivirus…

EDIT: Okay it seems that most of fedi is old 😅

#Mastodon #Fediverse

5 years
0.4%
10 years
1.9%
15 years
3.6%
20 years
5.7%
25 years
12.7%
30 years
15.5%
Even longer
60.3%
Poll ended at .
Sinclair-Speccy (@[email protected])

So on my older poll about how long people were using computers for, most of them said “even longer” meaning the majority of people (60%) have over 30 years of computer experience, indicating a predominantly older, more experienced audience (https://oldbytes.space/@SinclairSpeccy/113662681677892696) It was suggested to me to do a follow up poll about the relation to age to computer experience, which is this post will be about I suppose. I’ll do another follow up poll besides this one at another date about what decade people used computers but… How old were you when you first started using a computer? #Mastodon #Fediverse [ ] Under 5 years old [ ] 5-10 years old [ ] 11-15 years old [ ] 16-20 years old [ ] 21-30 years old [ ] Over 30 years old

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@SinclairSpeccy You needed some more, longer options!
@njr 🙃 How much longer?
@SinclairSpeccy Are Turing, von Neumann or Lovelace on this service?
@njr Sure 😅

@SinclairSpeccy I see you’re quite Spectrum-ish.

My Z-80 work was on an RML-380Z.
https://njr.prose.sh/CTRL-C

Then I moved over to the dark side (BBC Micro Model B; 32K, expandable to 64K!)

CTRL-C (Hard Lessons of Computing Series)

prose.sh
@njr @SinclairSpeccy They had one of them at my high school, although I'm not sure anybody knew how to use it or it was broken or something. I never remember seeing it working. By that time the computer lab was full of BBC Model Bs, replaced later on by lots of RM Nimbus 186s. We had a Winchester! 40MB for the whole school!