Scripting

Scripting / SysAdmin Survey

In repsonse to the “tagging” of my friend Laura Hunter I now respond with the answers to these deep mysteries. But first “tagging”? Is this equivalent to the gang tagging? I hope not!

**How old were you when you started using computers?
**I was 4 or 5 when …
What was your first machine?
My Dad brought home an Atari 800 computer – not the game console all though we did have games they just weren’t as cool as the ones on the game console.
What was the first real script you wrote?
For me the breakthrough came when I was 7 or 8 and I was puzzling through a the Atari 800 book on BASIC and I was able to accept the abtract concept of a variable! Years later in 7th grade when I was introduced to algebra I realized that I had already done the hard part – wrap my brain around this concept of a variable!

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