Gra
29th October 2007, 08:40 PM
You know you are an old geek when:
1. You remember when pair programming was a natural way of working because there weren’t enough computers to go round.
2. You speak HEX but have difficulty with any other foreign language.
3. You have a Sinclair QL lurking in the loft.
4. You remember when going online used to mean Compuserve and Bulletin Boards and 2400 baud was good!
5. You can program in Fortran, Algol, Pascal, Coral and a whole host of other unheard of languages and you remember when C was first invented.
6. You used to know how long every instruction took, and optimised your code accordingly.
7. You used bit shifts rather than multiply and divide, and wrote whole programs in scaled integer arithmetic because it was quicker.
8. You remember when Windows was a program that ran on top of the operating system and you had to type Windows at the DOS prompt to start it.
9. You remember when the operating system, compiler, editor and all the programs you needed ran in less than 28K bytes.
10. You used to write whole programs to draw lines and circles on the screen.
11. You’ve written an operating system, a screen editor and a compiler.
12. You invented “parallel processing” before it was ever called that because you needed to get 54 processors to talk to each other and crunch numbers for a real-time system.
13. Taking a backup used to mean generating a paper tape.
14. You remember when the computer occupied two whole rooms and had to be booted with a mylar tape and the disks were about 2 feet across.
1. You remember when pair programming was a natural way of working because there weren’t enough computers to go round.
2. You speak HEX but have difficulty with any other foreign language.
3. You have a Sinclair QL lurking in the loft.
4. You remember when going online used to mean Compuserve and Bulletin Boards and 2400 baud was good!
5. You can program in Fortran, Algol, Pascal, Coral and a whole host of other unheard of languages and you remember when C was first invented.
6. You used to know how long every instruction took, and optimised your code accordingly.
7. You used bit shifts rather than multiply and divide, and wrote whole programs in scaled integer arithmetic because it was quicker.
8. You remember when Windows was a program that ran on top of the operating system and you had to type Windows at the DOS prompt to start it.
9. You remember when the operating system, compiler, editor and all the programs you needed ran in less than 28K bytes.
10. You used to write whole programs to draw lines and circles on the screen.
11. You’ve written an operating system, a screen editor and a compiler.
12. You invented “parallel processing” before it was ever called that because you needed to get 54 processors to talk to each other and crunch numbers for a real-time system.
13. Taking a backup used to mean generating a paper tape.
14. You remember when the computer occupied two whole rooms and had to be booted with a mylar tape and the disks were about 2 feet across.