The oldest Oldtimer from the old countries coming aboard


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Hi guys and girls, found this site by accident. Looks like a lot of nice and competent people got together. I am an oldtimer from the old countries. Wrote my first program in 1958 on a Zuse Z11 at my university (look up Zuse in Wikipedia) and my last in 1967 - that's when they promoted me to "Manager". From there on it went downhill until I finally reached the level of total incompetence. That's when I retired - 15 years ago. Never wanted a PC because I was a "Mainframe man". But the wife finally got to me. She wanted to go on Ebay and chat with the girls. So we got the first PC this year - now we have 3. I am on a steep learning curve and that's where all of you come in. Hope we can have a good time together and see ya soon. WHS

Welcome to Neowin. Here's to many years of frustration with the PC. We love them, and they hate us. ;)

Hope we're able to help a vetran such as yourself. Here's a piece of funny to get you started.

Evolution of a Programmer

So what brought you here?

Lack of VISTA knowledge

Welcome to Neowin. Here's to many years of frustration with the PC. We love them, and they hate us. ;)

Hope we're able to help a vetran such as yourself. Here's a piece of funny to get you started.

Evolution of a Programmer

I may be a veteran in age, but not in knowledge - especially VISTA. I liked the funny piece. Reminded me of my own experience.

Hey WHS! Welcome to the forums. I joined early last year and came here every now and then. However, from today I've decided I am going to come here much more often and have even just subscribed!

It is an amazing forum and you are sure to find help with ANY problems, I believe. I've not had one problem which people could not solve.

Have fun! You're going to enjoy it :)

What's the betting that this dude:

1) Has a hell of a lot of knowledge to share.

2) Is gonna be a good laugh?

My money is placed on both as being true :)

Welcome, friend!

You are too kind. I buy the laughs. Forget the "knowledge". It is dated - like from before the civil war. WHS

Hey WHS! Welcome to the forums. I joined early last year and came here every now and then. However, from today I've decided I am going to come here much more often and have even just subscribed!

It is an amazing forum and you are sure to find help with ANY problems, I believe. I've not had one problem which people could not solve.

Have fun! You're going to enjoy it :)

That's encouraging cJr. WHS

The people around here have all pretty much grown up with the internet and computers, your "dated knowledge" may provide a unique and important perspective. Once you've gotten a handle on Vista be sure to check out the other facets of Neowin, there's a lot here.

Welcome!

^--- lol@that

Hey, Welcome! I read up on the Zuse on Wiki, and I thought I'd let you guys know... This guy was programming when vacuum tubes were new and considered really really fast.

In 1958 he was programming in binary on a computer that didn't even have vacuum tubes! And to think that I just CAN'T make programs without a few threads and the .NET framework.

This dude Zuse made the first computer that you could actually program, but that was in 1941.

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