Which decade has the most Civfanatics?

[Padma]

I fall between YNCS and the Mad Professor (born mid-fifties), but my computer experience is similar. The first computer I programmed was a new IBM 360 in 1976. While we used card decks for our class, if we talked real nice to the instructor, we could go to the computer room and sit down at a teletype and interface directly with the computer!

My first professional computer job was managing system security for four Honeywell 68000 mainframes, in 1984. Less than six years later, we got some IBM XTs to use as terminals. We figured out that each PC had at least as much computing power as the mainframe it connected to. All it lacked was storage space and connectivity.

 

[wiseguy101]

Its funny to listen to everyone say what their first experience was with a computer. My first experience with a computer was when I got my first computer, which was a Mac. I think we got it in 1994, but I can't be sure. It took up my whole desk, which was kind of small, and had a 150 megahertz processor. Now, my computer has a 2.4 gigahertz processor.

 

[Red Door]

My first experience with a computer was when I was 7 in 1998. I don't remember what kind of computer it was, but I remember it being slow. I made pictures using KidPix.

 

[megalomaniac]

My first experience with a comp was with an Apple IIE in 1991. Looking back, those things rocked.

 

[Pbhead]

my first computer was a 1995 gateway... first computer game was SC2k... still a simcity fan... was so awsome back then.

 

[Bluemofia]

1990 here.

 

[The Sleepy Vike]

1988. (Will be 18 very soon.)

 

[YNCS]

 

[Birdjaguar]

My first professional computer job was managing system security for four Honeywell 68000 mainframes, in 1984. Less than six years later, we got some IBM XTs to use as terminals. We figured out that each PC had at least as much computing power as the mainframe it connected to. All it lacked was storage space and connectivity.

I was getting an MBA 1982-84. In my first year we used punch cards to run monte carlo routines for a simulation program on the big mainframes in the basement and I used waterloo script (?) to write my papers. My second year the school had a dozen IBM PCs running Lotus 123 and some word processing program. Two of the pcs had hard drives, the others just dual floppies.

 

[Tavenier]

Born on the day Starwars: A New Hope was released...

 

[flytyer]

'76 here...the beginning of the rock & roll era!!!

 

[Padma]

Born on the day Starwars: A New Hope was released...

I remember watcing that in college ... after my first tour in the military.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Keep this active please.

 

[CaptainF]

I was born in 1989, with 9 months and two weeks left before the new year of 1990.

Earliest memory I have is in 1992, at my 3rd birthday!

 

[Birdjaguar]

'76 here...the beginning of the rock & roll era!!!

Well, maybe the 20th anniversary.

 

[binhthuy71]

I'm one ot the few, the proud, the 1.63% of Civ players born in the 40's.

Just moved up to Noble and, using the strategies espoused in these forums, scored over 27,000 in a Duel.

I won't say exactly how old I am but my first computer was an abacus!

Thanks to all who post.

 

[Zombie69]

I would like to point out that a strict mathematical calculation gives the following average birthday :
May 12, 1978

Assumptions :
- the average date of birth inside a decade can be found with a linear correlation using the number of people in the decade above it and the one below it
- the average date of birth for the 1930s is right in the middle of that decade (it's possible that there are people in the 20s and below, but it's also possible that one of those entries is bogus)
- the average date of birth for the 2000s is January 1st, 2000 (later and the person probably doesn't know how to read, and besides most of those entries are probably bogus)

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I voted in this long ago, but never actually posted.

1984 here. That's right, I'm an Orwellian child

 

[Birdjaguar]

I'm one ot the few, the proud, the 1.63% of Civ players born in the 40's.

Just moved up to Noble and, using the strategies espoused in these forums, scored over 27,000 in a Duel.

I won't say exactly how old I am but my first computer was an abacus!

Thanks to all who post.

Welcome from another 40s child. Don't forget to visit the Off Topic and History forums in the Colosseum.

 

[Pickaboo]

I would like to point out that a strict mathematical calculation gives the following average birthday :
May 12, 1978

Assumptions :
- the average date of birth inside a decade can be found with a linear correlation using the number of people in the decade above it and the one below it
- the average date of birth for the 1930s is right in the middle of that decade (it's possible that there are people in the 20s and below, but it's also possible that one of those entries is bogus)
- the average date of birth for the 2000s is January 1st, 2000 (later and the person probably doesn't know how to read, and besides most of those entries are probably bogus)

Did you use weighted average or some other method to calculate this? I did this by calculating statistical average and found out that average person was born in 5.404206th category ie. 15th january 1974 at 2.24pm
My assumption was simply that births are equally distributed at all times.