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A few lines of Fortran in 1966 to calculate pi to 100 places on a CDC 3200 using the ArcTan expansion which I'd just learned.
Most digits were zero, so I learned something about precision.
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I was just full of awesomeness when I wrote a complete calculator emulator (complete with transcendent functions) using CDL (Computer Design Language) running on a CDC Cyber 74 mainframe back in 1977. I aced that class. The prof said he didn't believe I could pull it off it had never been done before. It did cost me an F in all my other courses that quarter but it sure was worth it! 
Edit: Oh, you said how ILLITERATE was I ... OK, I didn't yet know what a CRT terminal was. I wrote the whole thing using an 029 keypunch, card reader (of course) and line printer.
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029 keypunch? That were looxury!
We had 026s only.
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Well, at Ga Tech we had both, but the 029's were, of course, the first ones taken! 
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1986 I was 3,
wrote a batch file to display hello world,
I understood that the operating system was called disk os aka DOS because I had to load the floppy's one at a time as the computer loaded as there were no hard drives.
Everyone before the year 2000 grew up with the technology and understand it before we use it.
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Windows was something you looked through when I wrote my first program, which was in FORTRAN, punched in cards and run on an IBM/360. I knew something about the operating system and assembler and bytes and bits and Boolean. My Dad was designing a home computer with transistors on printed circuit boards and showed his design to me.
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In very old times (when I was about six years old) I didn't know what is. We had http://www.pravetz.info/pravetz-8c.html[^] (information on the page is wrong, memory was 64KB of which 16KB was reserved for ROM, so there was only 48KB usable).
There was three way to use that computer:
1. As user, you load 5.25" diskette in the floppy drive and it shows a bunch of programs - some of them games.
2. There was an interpreter for GW-BASIC language.
3. Program in machine language. Not assembly, you must write bytes in hex notation at specific address. You can list the bytes as instruction later.
What I know (at six) about mathematics was sum and subtract one-digit numbers and due to my curiosity I was taught how to sum and subtract two digit number and the method of multiply by hand (but I didn't know the whole multiplication table). I didn't know what statement, or command, or assembly, or instruction, or programming was.
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That's an easy one, didn't have to do much, just plug my ZX80 into a black and white portable TV, switch it on and there was Sinclair basic ready to start typing in.
From that point on, for the first few months at least I just copied in magazine & type your own adventure book listings, till I eventually started to learn the syntax and could type my own stuff.
Keyboard was a nightmare though.
Shawty
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That was my little girl's first reaction to my unshaved appearance
Now after two weeks without shaving, my face resembles my user name (in the euphimistic sense, obviously) more than a dog.
This is my longest attempt at a beard so far. It really is a lot of trouble isn't it? Is it supposed to itch so, or have I acquired a few fleas too?
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S u n s h i n e wrote: Is it supposed to itch so
After 20 years you will not notice that at all... 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Two weeks are a great shaving cycle. Not too long, not too itchy. I gotta change my profile picture here back to a beardy one... Or a picture of me at all 
Honestly, I feel sorry for men without beards (and for girls with beards) - It protects from the cold, sun burns and if I shave I feel somehow naked. I let mine grow, I join the air force by June 30th. having a beard saves me ~10 minutes of sleep in the morning because I don't have to shave
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
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Marco Bertschi wrote: I join the air force
I am so envy right now. Do you get to actually pilot any aircraft or you are going only for the dishes ? 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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It's in between
I will be in a team building radar rigs, like this one[^] for example.
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
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And I though air forces pilot air crafts. In what delusion I was.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Air Force is a broad term, and in the Swiss jargon the Radar people (but also mechanics and airplane cannoniers) are a part of the Air Force. Simply because it would be too small if they didn't count the support people, I suspect.
Edit: To order myself back into the original topic, I did the deed and have now a beardy profile picture.
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
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Cool, I made my service in one of these[^].
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I hope to get on a TAFLIR[^], but chances for that are low.
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
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Ah, a target allocation radar. Way better than a search radar, you can shoot back.
I remember when I made my service, our radars were brand new and we still had engineers from Ericsson running around doing whatever on the Equipment.
This was at the time of the first gulf war, and what was on everybodys mind then was stealth planes and how super they were supposed to be according to all news.
So I asked one of the engineers, "Tyhe F-117 is supposed to have a radar cross section of a Robin, will that be a problem for us?"
The engineer laughed out loud and told me that "When you see a Robin that does 400 knots, you shoot it down". That was an eye opener that I remembered when they had one shot down over Bosnia.
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In addition to being itchy faced, I'm now green with envy
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Sleep deprivation is one of my reasons too for starting this
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I knew there must be someone liking it.
I keep mine trimmed to a weeks length.
My wife doesn't like it though. 
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I keep mine trimmed to a weeks length.
Pics or it didn't happen!
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Its nice to have a lady's opinion
The Mrs seems to like it so far, but the kids dislike it for the very reason you mentioned. I guess they'll get accustomed to it eventually. Assuming I don't get fed up first and get rid of it
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I've never gone more than two weeks without shaving because of the itching. Last time I got up at half two in the morning to shave because it was annoying me so much.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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