@Dianora

Does that mean old enough to have used those tools or to have had them operating at your birth?

For me this is the difference between being Lisp old or Lisp Machine old.

And while I am certainly UUCP old by any metric, I was happy even in the day to be of a community where I had an 'at' in my name, not one or more 'bangs'. My network presence dates to somewhere between RFC733 and RFC822. :)

I kinda like the idea of talking about 'age' measuring not from birth but from the birth of adult awareness of the relevant concepts. Then it could happen at different times for different things for different people. My understanding of and entry into the computer world happened much earlier than my appreciation of and need for involvement in the political world, for example.

#Lisp #LispMachine #Unix #ARPA #ARPANET #UUCP #age #aging

@donkeyblam Sort of, and I'll mark this so I remember to come back to it when I find it... I checked and I simply cannot remember and haven't found any links back to it in the half hour I've been searching (and following the wrong rabbit holes...)

#lispmachine

Are there modern computers like the #MacIvory #LispMachine that reuse a somewhat common host machine to run a weird architecture? Compute modules come to mind, but they are kinda different in focus.