I was born the year of the Floppy Disk

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I was born the year of the Floppy Disk

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Re: I was born the year of the Floppy Disk

Post by Patrick » Wed May 27, 2009 9:02 am

I was born 5 days before the moon landing.
Ego contemno licentia

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Re: I was born the year of the Floppy Disk

Post by greggh » Wed May 27, 2009 9:05 am

I guess that beats my floppy disk. :)

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Re: I was born the year of the Floppy Disk

Post by eddie » Wed May 27, 2009 11:07 am

I am a pre z4 by a couple of months.

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Re: I was born the year of the Floppy Disk

Post by shopRatt » Wed May 27, 2009 12:07 pm

Four days before the release of The Godfather. 8)
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Re: I was born the year of the Floppy Disk

Post by eddie » Wed May 27, 2009 2:41 pm

I know some people who remember the birth of their kids by the computer sold at the time.

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Re: I was born the year of the Floppy Disk

Post by LinuxMint-4 » Wed May 27, 2009 8:21 pm

COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language) developed by Grace Murray
Linux Mint 9 Gnome, Ubuntu 8.10 Easy Peasy , Open Suse, Windows XP PRO and others.

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Re: I was born the year of the Floppy Disk

Post by dann » Thu May 28, 2009 10:27 am

I was born the year of C, ARPAnet's first connections, and pong, but most importantly it was the year of Atari! Whoohoo

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Re: I was born the year of the Floppy Disk

Post by KStorm » Fri May 29, 2009 5:55 am

Just APL (programming language), I'm afraid.
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Re: I was born the year of the Floppy Disk

Post by Wally Balljacker » Sun May 31, 2009 1:46 am

I was born in May 1987, shortly after OS/2, the release of cutting edge VGA technology, MS-DOS 3.3, Windows 2.0, the Macintosh II, and the Amiga 500. :P

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Re: I was born the year of the Floppy Disk

Post by Claudio » Sun May 31, 2009 5:59 am

I was born in December of 1972. The following shows what happened shortly thereafter within that month of December...

http://www.google.com/search?q=december ... eline-date

One more...

http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comp ... mp1972.htm
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