How Old Are You?

[Zucker2k]

This is simple. I know I'm not the only one who is curious about the demographic spread of members on this forum. I know I've been surprised many times when an argument over a topic degenerates into "back in the day..." statements. So this is a random look, through polling, of all you oldies, as well as babies out there. Cheers!

[Envydia007]

traenta y cuatro

[Zucker2k]

traenta y cuatro

I guess that is 34? I'm 34 too. :up:

[Polizei]

Just turned 20 a couple months ago.

[TSXmike]

<-- 26

[Kobalt]

Looks like Movieman hasn't voted yet... :rofl:

[h1ms3lf]

29 ?! already

[Jon Boy Deluxe]

Almost 25 here...

[Fujimitsu]

18, results are a lot younger than I expected. Was thinking more 20s & 30s, but I guess it depends which part of the forum you're talking about.

[Don_Dan]

I'm 18 years old.

[Deux]

Almost 16

[Real Genius]

Forty-eight.

My first computer was an Atari 400 with an 8 bit 1.? Mhz processor and 16K of RAM. Commercial programs were loaded by ROM cartridges. I eventually got a cassette deck to load my own BASIC programs in.

[Colossous]

Fourty two here !!!! :eek:

[Vatos_locos]

19 for now ... :)

[Movieman]

I looked but I didn't see the "Older than Old Dirt" category..:shrug:

[Kayin]

26. Working on 70.

[Nate P.]

13 years old.

[ComputerGuy87]

20 now 21 in 3 months

[Sparky]

Guess I still count to be in the 16-20 group, I'm still 6 months away from 21.

[ex2cib]

21, finally, first one of these i can actually, truthfully vote 21 :)

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

I'm 23, but currently feel 81. Should I take the average? lol

[Fungus]

My first rig was a commodore 64 :>

[NickS]

16 on the 15th :)

[Den Leiw]

EINUNDZWANZIG

or simply 21

but yelling it out in german with american/english like accent is just funny ^^

[[XC] mysticmerlin]

My first rig was a Adam :up: Tape drive FTW!

[dagger]

44, alive and kickin

[nn_step]

way too frickin' old :p:

[Clint]

Allow me to quote my ex indonesian girlfriend:

"Sayang, kalau pagi kau tujuh puluh tahun, malam tujuh belas":dog:

(I'm 43)

[deepsilver]

[X] I am in the 16-20 Age Group

I am the "maingroup". :D

[RubberDuck]

I'll be 32 December 17 :)

[David_L6]

44 (until January 2, 2008).

[kuhla]

I am in the 21-25 Age Group.

[HotGore]

I am 18 today! WOOOOOO

[Unrealer]

22 :p:

[quake6]

I`m 17

[Frank M]

24 - today :)

[Glennswe]

45 here

[MorGo7h]

I'm 16years old :p

[patrickadizzle]

15

char.

[Fujimitsu]

15

char.

I wish my parents would have bought me a PC like yours when I was 15..

I had to mow lawns :(

[DeltZ]

18 since 10th November:)

[Blauhung]

25 at the end of this month

[patrickadizzle]

I wish my parents would have bought me a PC like yours when I was 15..

I had to mow lawns :(


As cliche as it sounds because every > 15 year old with a decent system says that they didn't buy it, because I have seen my fair share, my parents did not. Infact they were totally against the idea, and thought that it seemed like waste of money.

I started off with a DFI ultra-d, Opty 165 and 1GB Of g.skill ram and a 7900GT. Very good system, all used parts bought of a forum.


Pretty good at the time, not to mention I was only 14. And no Im not going to lie, I did not pay all of it. I was fortunate enough, and they started me off with 300 dollars. The rest was gained by haying at our local farm during the summer for 9 dollars an hour.

I now have a job at a PC store in our local town called PC connections. Since I am A+ cert, (who isn't), I can make a steady 13 an hour, which is very good for my age considering I'm not even "legal" to work overtime.

Saving Birthday money and xmas money helps as well. It all just takes time.

[icon57]

50...

so far the oldest to post

[Boogerlad]

i'm 13

[ownage]

Negentien :P

[Ashraf]

1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1.

[Warboy]

19, Been on my own for meh, 3 or 4 years. First system I ever built by hand was a 486 ;)

I've been playing with computers ever since i was 6.

[Eldonko]

30 here

[RockfordFosgate]

20 :)

[del_fuego]

30. What do i win?

[Supertim0r]

im 24

[Luis_GT]

18 here

[cloned]

16 right now, will be 17 next january

[xlink]

I'm 18

19 in feb.

[GunterFalstaff]

seems to be alot of us yunguns =P, 19 here.

[Omastar]

19, 20 on December 17th.

[KTE]

Ahhh I'll let someone other guess. :p:

[moonsond]

Семнадцать. That was in russian :) , i'm 17 years old, BD was on 10.X
Seems that most people here are aged 16-20... however, personally mine first rig was P75/64M SIMM, and first game - Doom (1) :)

[sirheck]

I am the 4th and 5th numbers in the firing order of a small block chevy:D

[Brother Esau]

37 in a couple of weeks:up:

[KTE]

37 in a couple of weeks:up:That's a surprise, although I've never actually thought about your age. :p:

[WesM63]

22 until the end of January

[Drager2]

Already 18. I`m soo old :(

[Solaris]

16 :)

[apexracing]

I'm 21 right now, but I'll be 75 in three weeks.

Where's my old man emoticon, damn it !:bsod:

[The_Beast]

I'm 16

[killert]

15 here

[Moonman]

22, ATM feeling like 12 (reason = QX9650 ES :D ).

[Tortel]

Im 16 right now, ill be 17 in 15 days (Wooo!)

[cloned]

seems to be alot of us yunguns =P, 19 here.

what are you talking about "us" ? you are already 19, old hag :P j/k

[nicepun]

31..........darn, this isn't an Asus Contest -- LOL

[IanY]

Damn... looking at your ages, I think I need a drink. I'm ready for the dinosaur museum.

[trance565]

20 in feb.

[soulstaker]

20 years.


In the last 3-4 years, i have the impression that years move more and more faster. It's a signal of age?

[hstuehmeyer2000]

i am 17

[sirheck]

20 years.


In the last 3-4 years, i have the impression that years move more and more faster. It's a signal of age?

Yes time flies as you get older.

[MrSeanKon]

34.7 (almost 35) :D

[giorgos th.]

In 3rd of January i`ll be 27..

[donitsi]

Im only 18... My first computer was some old AST from 1995 :P

[Computerville]

I´m 16 years old, my first computer - Pentium 75Mhz...

[Jamesrt2004]

16 +

a really poo Celeron Compaq BEAST :P

[aCKs3r]

im 23 and ive had too many computers over the years to count. my dad always had the hook up from his work so ive always been a computer nerd.

[The0men]

first computer, Pentium2 something, and a K7 460??mhz or something, overclocked to 533 with little switches on the motherboard :P

I'm nearly double figures, but no one put an under 10s age bracket up :(






I'm really 19

[Zucker2k]

first computer, Pentium2 something, and a K7 460??mhz or something, overclocked to 533 with little switches on the motherboard :P

I'm nearly double figures, but no one put an under 10s age bracket up :(






I'm really 19

Ah!!

[Volkum]

21 here.

[Damien]

18, my mom has only bought me computer parts once when my pc was stolen at a lan about two years ago, she gave me $300 to start a new rig.

[nn_step]

18, my mom has only bought me computer parts once when my pc was stolen at a lan about two years ago, she gave me $300 to start a new rig.

never had a dumpster pc, I take it? :rolleyes:

[SoberWarlock]

I turned 15 on August.

[xVeinx]

I'm 26, and my first computer was a Pentium 100mhz beast given to me by my grandmother when she had no more use for it (my dad and I had built it for her :up:). Grandma was pretty cool like that!

[AMD666]

I am 21.

[Damien]

never had a dumpster pc, I take it? :rolleyes:

haha the one i'm using now practically is. I've always had to buy mid-range stuff or I'd just end up waiting an extra 3-4 months. I bought a q6600 from tankguys when they got G0, sold it, and LOST the money...I have back luck with hardware, especially only making about $850 a month right now with bills. I'm getting a better job next month so I think I'll finally have a rig that'll hold me over for a while.

[Nate P.]

First PC was a Pentium D machine, 1GB RAM, 7300GT.

[IanY]

My first PC was an Altair... oops it shows how freaking antiquated I am lol

An IBM PS/2 80 386 system (real tower of power.. complete with math co-processor!) that I bought myself as a present for graduating from college cost me $8,000 haha, and that was without the $3,500 Apple laser printer lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

[systemviper]

System Vipers

I am in the am in the 46-50 Age Group 5 2.36%
My son is in the , wait there is no group for him, he's 9 lol

[systemviper]

My first PC was an Altair... oops it shows how freaking antiquated I am lol

An IBM PS/2 80 386 system (real tower of power.. complete with math co-processor!) that I bought myself as a present for graduating from college cost me $8,000 haha, and that was without the $3,500 Apple laser printer lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

LOL, yea when i was going to school, We were doing assembler lang,,, incrementing the stack register to get things done.
bam then I graduated collage and used punchcards to program, fortran.

First real computer was the sinclair

then the trs 80 and then the Atari 400, that was my first programming treat.

Ahh, u know the rest 8088, then 286..386 and now look at us. WOW

but i still haven't learned to spell, love the spellchecker, best invention since sliced bread, but i won't use it :rofl:

Regards
SystemViper

[Stijndp]

22.

At the age of 5 my father brought home a 386. Everyday I messed up dos because I didn't know english at all at the beginning. I just tried all the commands which I saw in the English manual.
Yeah, the days when an OS still had full manuals; things were all different when I was young :p

[AriciU]

I'm 24. First pc was a 486 100Mhz =)

[CowGuy]

I am 13.

[Timbosan]

im 26, my first PC was a celeron 466 (age 18), and since then i have had many different systems (most from dumpsters & friends ;)). i hve had a pentium pro, pentium 1, pentium 2 (266), every celeron from 466 - 766, pentium 4 1.7 (0.18um), pentium 4 2.8C @ 3.5, now my core2duo system.
i wish i had gotten into them earlier, but ive learnt a lot in the time ive been involved with them.

[eToh]

I am in the 21-25 age group but my grandma just turned 90 last week.

[nosboost300]

I am 13.

13 and you got a rig like that!! lucky lucky!!!

19 almost 20.. turning 20 dec 26th

first computer was a commador amiga.. that thing sucked...

[.Logic]

15 and 1/2 here :shrug:

[xlink]

I am in the 21-25 age group but my grandma just turned 90 last week.

so your family breeds late...

guess what, I'm 18 and my grandmother turned 90 months ago...

[xt0m]

33 :shakes:

[Zeus]

I'm old. :(




39

[CowGuy]

13 and you got a rig like that!! lucky lucky!!!

19 almost 20.. turning 20 dec 26th

first computer was a commador amiga.. that thing sucked...

Yeah, I know. I was lucky enough to get quite a few jobs around the neighbor hood. Saved up my money for 2 years and got my dream rig :)

I never really had my own computer until about a year ago but the first computer I used was an old Pentium 1 Gateway.

[Computerville]

Yeah, I know. I was lucky enough to get quite a few jobs around the neighbor hood. Saved up my money for 2 years and got my dream rig :)

I never really had my own computer until about a year ago but the first computer I used was an old Pentium 1 Gateway.- Yeaa, you got style man... =)

Keep on and you will be the best, after me... of course...

[pumpahhh]

13, two months and some till' birthday. :P

Oh and my first pc, Celleron 2800, MSI mobo, 256mb ram, 9200 se, not so long ago (about 4 years)

[DDC]

16 here

[Lurid]

I'm 18.

[momoceio]

23...24 on the 31st

[GARY1951]

Well I put in 51 to 60 group which I am 56 and still have not grown up but I should have put in old as dirt!!!!:yepp:

[Nate P.]

I am 13.
Nice rig man, I'm 13 aswell, but I don't have the moolah for that kind of hardware.:ROTF:

[Cupcake]

16 :)

[g1raffe]

I'm with the majority if users in the 16-20 age group, at 17. :)

[road-runner]

47 this month...

[Big SturL]

Atten år!

dat be a-t33n

[Yakyb]

a seemingly average 24

[tiborrr]

22.

First computer in the family was Schneider 64, first PC was a AMD 486DX2 and the first PC i bought with solely my money was a AMD XP1700+ Tbird with NF7-S & 2x512MB CH5 memory.

[Truckchase!]

Thank you for squeezing 30 into the "26 to 30" group. That makes my 30 years feel relatively young. :D

[LiViD]

28, nearly getting there. I hate this thing we call "aging". :P

[ckirkby3]

20 and we just had a lil baby girl on the 23/11/2007

[heanwi]

I'm 17. 8 months to the magic 18 :)

And congratulations with the baby girl ckirkby!

[zLynk]

My first PC was an Altair... oops it shows how freaking antiquated I am lol

An IBM PS/2 80 386 system (real tower of power.. complete with math co-processor!) that I bought myself as a present for graduating from college cost me $8,000 haha, and that was without the $3,500 Apple laser printer lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

That's the stuff; we had one of those printers. :D Even had an AppleTalk port for direct serial communication at up to 9600 baud. For you young'uns, "baud" can be considered synonymus with "bits per second." :ROTF:

My birthday is tomorrow, and I'm happy to say that I'm 28 today. I don't know when my first computer was actually given to me, but I got to start playing games on it when I was two years old. The Apple II+ was my first toy, with its beutiful monochrome screen that would glow at night, even if it hadn't been used that day. :eek: Did I mention that it had a single RCA connector for its signal?

As I grew up, I got use of an 8088, 80286, 80386 25MHz w/ 80387 co-processor (my first long-term hack machine), and an IBM PS/2 (486DX33). All of those machines were eventually given to me, as my dad upgraded. Once my dad took a job at MS, in 1994 he didn't really use his machine at home... so, no pentium-class machine ever came along for me. My first build was a K6-2 333.

BTW, how many of you remember when SIMMs were introduced? My 386 had 72 DIP-sockets for individual 14-pin memory chips. Oh, and a digg through my dad's old junk uncovered a telephone coupler, not long ago! :cool: Long gone it seems, are the days of MCA and even ISA. pity...

My first ever case-mod involved nothing more than a pair of vice-grips. :rofl:

[LiViD]

Actually baud and bps were two different things. Baud is the signaling rate at which data is sent, BPS is the data rate itself. I learned that lesson the hard way by being told off by someone else many years ago. :P

[zLynk]

Touché. Baud is a measure of symbol rate, where symbols can be multi-bit length. If you need to know more, use wikipedia. :cool:

[camouflage]

:( Too old to run the 100 meters sub 10sec... -:p: but my rig is young and does it in SP1M..........:rofl:

:clap:

[Pudi]

25 tomorrow :( I'm old

[AngryArtichoke]

20, and glad to be past high school

[Brother Esau]

Oh man I remember when I was 20 what a great time:D

[Truckchase!]

Oh man I remember when I was 20 what a great time:D

21-26, potentially the best five years of any Man's life. Use 'em well. :D

[KTE]

Oh man I remember when I was 20 what a great time:D:D

...

[justapost]

Ahhh I'll let someone other guess. :p:
As no one did, 25?

36 over here.

First pc like thing had an lcd oneliner and was fed with bytecode directly. Could be used to controll selfmade circuits. So it could be used as a keyboard with an speaker and a few transistors, resistances and capacitor.

Next was an Atari ST.

Had a completely pc/tv free time 96-97. Started working in that business 98.

[KTE]

Very close. ;)

[sh33p]

I'm surprised how many 16-20's there are, let alone the fact that they make up the largest age demographic.

20 in a few weeks. Am I in a bad state if I'm already dreading it and feeling old?

[Bobsama]

17.

[TheGoat Eater]

I'm getting up there - 24 hopefully I will have a bit more... as people from high school seem to be to be dropping a lot faster and it is making me nervous (anxiety problems :( ) but those are out of the ordinary like getting hit by lightening

[KingDingeling]

17 still :)

[Penguin463]

I am in the 16-20 bracket as well :p:

Turning 19 in less than a month :D

[massman]

Turning 19 in 8 days :spill:

[burnstudios]

38 :toast:

[Mr. Nillionaire]

Turning 19 soon, wah getting old ;/

[nonlnear]

J'ai vingt-huit ans.

I'm glad the brackets end in the "0" year, and don't start with them. That way I've got another two years in my bracket! :toast:

[i found nemo]

wow alot of teenagers on here. 22 now but 23 on feb 4th

first rig of my own k6-2 @ 570 mhz

second rig p3 @ stock :( i remember how much hate i got on here for that damn thing lol.

[The Fool]

2.28%?

My generation is about to die?
No favour solving probs by experience?
3 O'clock Blues (powered by a 30 year old single malt) "You can't always get what you want, might find get what you need"?

Kind regards

They old Fool

[71 (Bryan)]

15
youngest bracket =D

[coldcheeks]

21... :toast:

30 is the new 20

[jackies]

@35 I belong in elderly group lol
and def, 20-25 is certainly best years, after that its kinda less exciting...
286 was alot more exciting than e6600
:D

[Bl4ck^!]

26 @ 19 August this year ;F , i'm "old" by number , on the bright side i think i found my other half ^^ (14 years in this "business" can seriously f_uck your social life )

[ACS]

25 and a half here ... steadily climbing the 30 tree :P

[kodiak kid]

28.......going on 18 :D

[S1mon-]

18 Here. 19 in a few months ;)

[SoF]

not one of the youngest (anymore) but still well half (maybe almost a third) of that what movieman brings on the table :rofl:

[lazy]

just turned 24 few months ago

[Mav451]

23.

Looks like XS primary demo is ~16-25 years old (which is what I expected). However, I'll soon be exiting that category into old foagie :(

My first was a mom&pop built 800 AMD Tbird. Full speed cache for the one, lol. I ended up poking around in there, updating the BIOS for better IDE performance - such was the life of a Via chipset. Also had to screw around with PCI Latency bs...that was fun. Didn't build until I my painted 1600+ failed, along with the rest of that board haha.

[[XC] riptide]

28.

[Carsten]

old as dirt (47)

Kindly
carsten

[ChongL]

22 here

[Smokin_Joe]

31.

[Kallenator]

20 in a couple of months :(

I think it can stop now, 19 is fine =)

[Bootup05]

6 here :)

[lukashill]

23.

[De5tr0yer]

Just 18.

[Xel'Naga]

21 this Tuesday. Party is tonight!
1 CS and 1 EE course to go....can't wait :D

[jamsblast]

21 ... party on october

[A2C]

I´m Just 21

[cajer]

15 in 3 months

[XRTweaked]

I'll be turning 40 in July :cool:

[spajdr]

30 for 29 days :)

[Polizei]

20 in a couple of months :(

I think it can stop now, 19 is fine =)

20 isnt much different than 19. Bones creak a little more, thats about all Ive noticed. Just turned 20 a couple months ago.

[cabbspapp]

18 in March.

[Boite de P4]

im 23, 24 in august

[BrokeDown]

23 in June

[biglipzit]

21 here! Just

[ownage]

Finally i'm 20 :D

[Kyo`]

I'm 19 :)

[ka lok]

Im 30... I'll be 29 next year!

[Omastar]

Is it normal to feel significantly older when you turn 20? I sure do. Now, in true Reagan fashion, I proclaim it late afternoon in America and am off to take a long nap.

[chinaguy]

42 here, so my first Home Computer(PC had not been invented then) was a PET 2001.........Now my toaster oven has more processing power!

So at 42 I am in the last 8% of the population on here!

[chinaguy]

Or to put 42 in to perspective.......one of the guys or dolls that has to pay for his own computer now!

[apexracing]

Is it normal to feel significantly older when you turn 20? I sure do. Now, in true Reagan fashion, I proclaim it late afternoon in America and am off to take a long nap.

I felt the same way, two years ago. Gravity sets in that you're starting to age a bit, you think about your age, not just if you're old enough for alcy. :up:

[MaXXimus]

42 here, so my first Home Computer(PC had not been invented then) was a PET 2001.........Now my toaster oven has more processing power!

So at 42 I am in the last 8% of the population on here!


40 here... least there are a couple of us freakin old timers. Probably would confuse them all if we started talking about tv shows like Ultra Man, Rin Tin Tin and Hogans Heroes lol.

[Russian]

Im 18 bro.

[LemniaAlsa]

16 over here :D

[Swatrecon_]

17

I feel the same as I did a year ago though.:rolleyes:

[SoF]

today it's one year older for me :D

[Oliver]

Congrats soF...

Vote @ 17 years...

[Linchpin]

I'm 17.

[[XC] NetburstXE]

I'm 13.

[Khalmyr]

25 here.

[BigDov]

*cough*

37

Us 'old' guys are definitely a minority around here...... :D

[Frisch]

*cough*

37

Us 'old' guys are definitely a minority around here...... :D

You have not even begun your life. :D

The other day I talked with a 89 year old women........... and I think i'm at the end of the line, as a 44 year old......but compared to her, i'm only half way through...and that's a loooooooooong trip.

[WeldZilla]

I'll be 52 when I wake up tomorrow morning March 28th. It has been nothing short of fantastic my whole life. I still have my one and only child at home. He is MZ95 on Xbox live and at 12 he runs his e6600 on his P5N-e at 3800mhz for a daily clock. He set it up all by himself. We ride dirt bikes together, We are going to spend a week at our beach place crabbing and fishing next week during his spring break. My wife and I are going on 30 years of marriage this year. I got to tell you, if you play your cards right it only gets better!!!
Just don't become your own worst enemy in life!!

Cheers to all us old b-a-s-t-a-r-d-s......


WZ

PS. Both machines in my sig run Super pi 1M under 10 seconds. How much better could it be?

[Frisch]

I'll be 52 when I wake up tomorrow morning March 28th. It has been nothing short of fantastic my whole life. I still have my one and only child at home. He is MZ95 on Xbox live and at 12 he runs his e6600 on his P5N-e at 3800mhz for a daily clock. He set it up all by himself. We ride dirt bikes together, We are going to spend a week at our beach place crabbing and fishing next week during his spring break. My wife and I are going on 30 years of marriage this year. I got to tell you, if you play your cards right it only gets better!!!
Just don't become your own worst enemy in life!!

Cheers to all us old b-a-s-t-a-r-d-s......


WZ

PS. Both machines in my sig run Super pi 1M under 10 seconds. How much better could it be?

Let me the first to wish you a :bday:

[WeldZilla]

Why Thankyou, Frisch..

[Chipmonk]

38 this year :(

Belated Happy Birthday Weldzilla.........................






you old bugger ;)

[FadeToBright]

The big 2-1, turning 22 in a few months. :p

[yankee]

turned 27 on sunday.

The first PC i ever used was a Tandy TRS-80. The first one i actually owned was a 486 @ 66 MHz and 48 MB of RAM! :cheer2:

[jnrjim67]

Big 4...0... :)

[alexio]

Just 19 but I feel so old :D

[jas420221]

31 here!


turned 27 on sunday.

The first PC i ever used was a Tandy TRS-80. The first one i actually owned was a 486 @ 66 MHz and 48 MB of RAM! :cheer2:My first PC was that same tandy, the next was a 486 dx4 100Mhz with 16mb ram.

[projecticeberg]

im only 14 (i still laugh at the word boobies i am sorry...:D)
i first got into computers from my dad (hes in it) when i was 10 and im pretty good with them but yeah