Originally Posted by Hydrae:
'60 here. I never liked being lumped in with the Boomers. Hell, my dad was all of 5 when the war ended.
As to my computer experience, I got my first taste in high school. It was writing programs in Basic using the teletype to the computer at the district offices. I still have a couple rolls of the punch tape with my programs.
Early 80's the first PCs started coming out and I wished I could afford one. I settled for a Radio Shack Color Computer hooked up to a tv. Fun times! :-)
1950 model boomer here. We had regular civil defense drills in elementary school in case of an atom bomb attack where we put our heads under our desks to be safe.
I Was 17 when Chiefs played in the first SB and was stationed on Guam when they won SBIV and had to wait a couple months to see it on armed forces TV.
My first computer experience was taking a class at WSU on cobol programming on the GI bill, bored me to death and I dropped the class. WTF?
Several years later I bought my daughters a Comodore 64 and had no clue what was going on with it. [Reply]
Technically, I’m a millennial, but I find myself to be more of a blend of Gen X as well. I sure as hell was a latchkey kid, but on the technology side I’m more millennial. I remember using computers very young in school, like 1st grade.
Someone mentioned the ‘Oregon Trail’ generation. That’s me. [Reply]
