Answer these questions to find out if you're a real IT person.

[realityhack]

0. Which is the first computer you wrote a program for?
ZX 'rubber beermat' Speccy
1. Which is the first computer you owned?
Commodore 64
2. How many languages have you seriously programmed in (work or play)?
6
3. How many years have you made a living out of IT (programming or otherwise).
15
4. Do you enjoy programming or is it a chore?
For fun - it's enjoyable. For work - a chore.
5. Do you know what vi is and have you used it?
vi answer
yes and yes
:x

[Mich the Tester]

0. Which is the first computer you wrote a program for?
Commodore PET 16k
1. Which is the first computer you owned?
zx81
2. How many langauges have you seriously programmed in (work or play)?
4
3. How many years have you made a living out of IT (programming or otherwise).
15
4. Do you enjoy programming or is it a chore?
I don’t enjoy it because I’m crap at it
5. Do you know what vi is and have you used it?
Yes and yes

[HairyArsedBloke]

0. Which is the first computer you wrote a program for?
1. Which is the first computer you owned?
2. How many langauges have you seriously programmed in (work or play)?
3. How many years have you made a living out of IT (programming or otherwise).
4. Do you enjoy programming or is it a chore?
5. Do you know what vi is and have you used it?

And yes, support people, PMs etc etc - you're not real IT people.

0. ICL 1900 series
1. Some PC clone
2. Frack knows, but > 10
3. 25
4. Nah, fracking usless at it now
5. yes, yes

[Moscow Mule]

0. Which is the first computer you wrote a program for?
ZX Spectrum
1. Which is the first computer you owned?
ZX Spectrum
2. How many langauges have you seriously programmed in (work or play)?
I dunno - more than 5, less than 10.
3. How many years have you made a living out of IT (programming or otherwise).
12
4. Do you enjoy programming or is it a chore?
It's one the of the most enjoyable things I do for work, but I've far better things to do for kicks.
5. Do you know what vi is and have you used it?
Yes and no. Working on UNIX isn't the be all of IT.

A more geeky question might be:
6: How many names have there been for the AS400 in the last 4 years.

[TimberWolf]

None of you ZX80/81/Spectrum people are real IT people, otherwise you'd have had the Acorn Atom/BBC micro.

[realityhack]

None of you ZX80/81/Spectrum people are real IT people, otherwise you'd have had the Acorn Atom/BBC micro.

No need - they had a whole load of those in school.

[sasguru]

None of you ZX80/81/Spectrum people are real IT people, otherwise you'd have had the Acorn Atom/BBC micro.

AFAIK BBC micro was twice the price of the Spectrum.
So no, real IT people got the cheaper product and maximised the hell out of it.

[TimberWolf]

AFAIK BBC micro was twice the price of the Spectrum.
So no, real IT people got the cheaper product and maximised the hell out of it.

played games with

[Sysman]

0. Which is the first computer you wrote a program for? - The mainframe at uni. It didn't compile.

1. Which is the first computer you owned? - Amstrad PCW. The printer was awesomely noisy.

2. How many langauges have you seriously programmed in (work or play)? - > 10

3. How many years have you made a living out of IT (programming or otherwise). - 30

4. Do you enjoy programming or is it a chore? - I enjoy the fiddly bits that no-one else wants to or can do (think Fjords)

5. Do you know what vi is and have you used it? - Yes and Yes.

[NotAllThere]

played games with

Wrote games with.

In assembler. I did have a BBC Micro when they came out. That's what I used to play games.