genebujold

I'm sorry, but UNIVAC's policies prohibit inefficient statistical groupings. We regret to inform you that we must recycle your post into the 20-29 age category in order to maximize business efficiencies.

Please accept our apology for any inconvenience this may have caused.

chris100575

Hey, as long as I'm having to move my vote into a younger category it's fine with me! :D

Chris

(edited for spelling)

bobsmith

ok let me try and edit the numbers to remove the rogue entry... and yes that makes you younger chris!



right... done...


all those 3 people in the 29-30 catagory please re-vote.. thanks!!

genebujold

We regret to inform you that UNIVAC's policies do not allow the editing of any posts to differ from what's originally posted.

Should you desire to change what you originally posted, you may do so at your own expense.

Should any posts actually be changed from their original postings, everyone on this board will do the hokey pokey and turn themselves around.

After all, that's what it's all about.

Please see the manager of the universe for settlement of any complaints.

- Gene

Highluc

I'm 53 and this is going too fast for me, let me go back for a while.

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bobsmith

what's UNIVAC anyway??? :P

genebujold

UNIVAC was a room-sized mainframe computer made by the Sperry Rand corporation in the late 1960s. They had million-dollar memory, two and a quarter ton 100 megabyte hard drives, and required more refridgeration than an outdoor ice rink in the middle of a Las Vegas summer. In 1968 you could pick up a 1.3 MHz CPU with half a megabyte of RAM and 100 megabyte hard drive for a mere US$1.6 million - which was absolutely amazing in those days.

Compare that to my current setup, a 2.54 GHz CPU with 512 MB RAM and 250 GB hard drive for just $1,100. That's 2,000 times as much processing power, 1,000 times the memory, 2,500 times the hard drive space, but it's 1,500 times cheaper!

We've come a LONG way in 35 years...

We've come a long way in just 4 years, too. In 2000 I built my n'th computer system for $2,500. It has 1/4 the processing power, RAM, and hard drive space of my current system, yet cost more than twice as much to build as my current setup.

If this trend continues, I'll upgrade in 2008 to a 12 GHz machine with 2 GB RAM and a terrabyte hard drive for just $500!

When I started school 25 years ago, the total combined hard drive space of every computer, personal and educational, at my entire 25,000-student school didn't add up to a terrabyte.

I do see one welcome trend, however - a significant lessening of the desire for bigger, faster, better systems, primarily because we're now at a point where the most processor and memory-intensive tasks such as digital video editing/rendering are readily available to the home user. While a mid-80's Amiga could do some of what I do, it would have taken it a month to render complex scenese that my current setup can do in 15 minutes.

And that's a LOT of computing power!

For all of that, however, it's still several orders of magnitude slower than the average human brain with respect to total volume of information processed in any given unit of time - and, at 250 W, about 100 times less efficient!

Man-in-Boots

36 tomorrow!!!!!! so happy birthday to me!! yahooo

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J-Nation

I got up to 35 then decided to start going back down again, so my 'showbiz' age is 30, calendar age 40. If the queen can have two birthdays, why can't I have two birth dates!?
Emma

Dawn HH

I voted for the catagory 60-69 as I am 69 at the present time. Move over Emery as I'll join you as a surfer on October 14th when I turn 70 and start a new decade in my life. Tee-Hee!!! I am wondering if anybody else is in that catagory along with you? Cheers---

Dawn HH

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