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Hello everyone,

I recently have discovered that I am very likely autistic. It all started with taking the AQ test mostly just for fun and getting a result that made me think it would worthwhile to do some more research. That started me down a rabbit hole of reading and watching as many things as I could about adult identified autism. Many hours of YouTube, blog posts, and a couple books later here I am saying hello.

I am very interested in computer operating systems (and various other technologies), woodworking, and gardening.

Hello and welcome.

Welcome friend.

Hello and welcome

Cool, I like computing too, and the most interesting was working with embedded linux on telco equipment. Opening the embedded vi editor and editing the embedded config files, saving it in the onboard flash of the unit and asking the unit to reboot itself .... wonderfull
I'm able to read code in bash, python and c, but I'm no coder. In the 'stone age' pre blue screens i was an adept msdos user. And I've tried Fedora, and CygWin.

I had almost the same journey, figuring out that the strangeness I've felt from I was 6 years old was due to aspie traits unique to .... well people with aspie traits, of whitch i've never met except my older brother. We never suspected that the reason was a trait of the physical brain and always assumed we was plain dumb. I just got diagnosed at age 49. And I had to go totally burnout and PTSD infected before I got diagnosed. Dear mister, I really hope your journey wasn't as profound like mine.

Btw I see this cite has lots of Americans, so what do you guys use as the British Cheers?

Power to you "highfive"

Regards
Gragzy

Hello rgm and welcome to wrong planet .

Hello! Welcome to WP!

And while I enjoy computers I defer to the younger folk for technical computer discussions.

I started programming in 1971, back when dinosaur mainframes roamed the Earth, before personal computers became abundant.

Thats just cool, at school (88,89 something like that) we had, at the time, an old Tandberg NOR100 small mainframe with possibly 50 terminal ports and the most awesome harddrive with 4 massive deadly oxide covered aluminium plates whizzing around in a flimsy plastic shell. I've always wondered if those ever killed some poor sod. And the, ... 15 inch floppy?, was an awesome frisbee when the corners was bent.

To the point (at last), what do you think of the creations of the tape era programmers that started work on the editors similar to ed with that tiny amount of memory? I've had to rudimentary use vi and awk as tools on os embedded linux with hundreds of k of active memory, even those programs blew my mind.

Don't start talking old school computers, it just triggers something with me...
I started with a spectrum in 1980? Then ABC 80 in High school, then pdp-11 in USA.
I've been working with computers most of my life, from support, net design, security, programming (c), testing, web, you name it.
Btw, I hate that linux has replaced bourne shell with bash. I like bash better, but it's frustrating to not have a standard. (This could have changed, last time I checked was in 2003 I think)
I still like computers, but I've stopped working with them.
Other things are even more interesting

/Mats

Keypunch cards anyone ........looolzz

Well, having started on mainframes, I did not meet UNIX for some time. And I'm sticking with my first impression: it might be powerful but I don't like it. The command codes are cryptic and my memory wasn't up to the task. Besides which, how can you take an O/S seriously if a cat walking across the keyboard could inadvertently do sysadmin tasks!

Our high school had an HP 9100B--a programmable calculator that, due to the technology of the time, was the size of a cash register. I very much enjoyed programming that thing! Our high school also arranged for us to write and run a FORTRAN program on a mainframe at a nearby defense contractor and briefly had a teletype in from a local college so we could write and run a BASIC program (which really was quite basic compared to the VBA I play with now).

I had enough fun with the stuff that I picked Computer Science as my major in college. Which had state-of-the-art IBM System/370 mainframe computers running the MVS operating system--which we, of course, programmed with punched cards.

Sigh. You might now be able to find more advanced computing technology in a greeting card.

And "No" I am not as old as dirt. (But I may have known some people who met the guy that invented it.)

well yes, infuriating in a way. But i'm not so sure, the last one i got didn't stop until I did tear if apart and some had let a sparkler-troll from trolls (a kids movie) have a dump (pardon my french) inside it. What a mess, and just after I had gotten all the sparklers out of the cracks in the floor re my daughters goo/slime/glue'ish production last year. The fact that sparklers are still glued to the table I wont mention

Regarding dirt:
Meh dw about it at all, I can confirm that dirt was invented so long ago that even moses was not even close to be on the planning board. I dont think planning boards was invented at that time, and banging rocks together was after dirt and before planning boards. I think dirt is pre most things

oooh, why did you remind me of the quarter brick of a computer we had at middle school. wildly small and odd with integrated keys covered i a slick red hard'ish-based rubber/plastic like surface. wow. year 86 approx. My first propper go at basic, I even managed to draw a modern villa with two forced focus point for depth. My table partner had a credible attempt to create something people today use a bra to support.

I never worked with punch cards, but we had teletype/printer terminals in high school in USA.
Anyways, I much prefer sailmaking and woodworking than computers nowadays.

/Mats

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