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

[NickFitz]

0. Which is the first computer you wrote a program for?

DEC PDP-8/e.

1. Which is the first computer you owned?

British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System Model B.

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

Lost count - must be getting on for a couple of dozen.

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

26.

4. Do you enjoy programming or is it a chore?

Love it

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

Yes & yes.

[Spacecadet]

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.

1. Amstrad CPC 464
2. Basic, C, C++, Matlab (inc. Visual Matlab), VB6, VB .NET, Unix Shell scripting, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Java script
3. 11 years
4. Still enjoy it
5. Spent long enough using VI to become numb to the pain

[Churchill]

Go Forth and multiply...

[RSoles]

0. Which is the first computer you wrote a program for?
Control Data Corporation 6600, Fortran, punched cards, 1976, and Altair 8080 (programming as in setting the data switches to up or down). http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/altair/ .

1. Which is the first computer you owned?
Homebrew, built from components Zilog Z-80, 16kRAM, 4k EPROM. Dual 8" Floppies.6" monochrome text only crt with vertical rather than horizontal linescan.
Ported Intel's ISIS-II operating system onto it.

2. How many langauges have you seriously programmed in (work or play)?
God knows, loads, maybe still fewer than 100.

3. How many years have you made a living out of IT (programming or otherwise).
31

4. Do you enjoy programming or is it a chore? Fun.

5. Do you know what vi is and have you used it? I now prefer VIM.

[expat]

0. Which is the first computer you wrote a program for?
Control Data Corporation 6600

Bloody Hell, it's a real Cyberman!

[al_cam]

0. Which is the first computer you wrote a program for?
Sun (don't know what model)

1. Which is the first computer you owned?
Some 286 clone

2. How many languages have you seriously programmed in (work or play)? ~12
c/c++, c#, vb, asp, java, tcl/tk, informix 4gl/esql, adept v+ (robot control software), cobol, PHP, do scripting languages count (eg HTML)?

3. How many years have you made a living out of IT (programming or otherwise).
13

4. Do you enjoy programming or is it a chore?
Enjoy

5. Do you know what vi is and have you used it?
Love vi - especially map command. Now use it every day - best part of upgrading to Linux.

[expat]

Everybody else seems to enjoy programming. Maybe that's a sign that I should get into some other line of work.

[expat]

My first computer only cost me $250. My second computer cost me £2000, which was quite a lot at the time. It was the 60Mb disk that really pushed the price up.

[NickFitz]

do scripting languages count (eg HTML)?

HTML isn't a scripting language, it's a markup language

[HairyArsedBloke]

Everybody else seems to enjoy programming. Maybe that's a sign that I should get into some other line of work.

I'm sorry to say that I don't anymore. I used to a lot, but these days I am more interested in the business problem I'm trying to working on. The programming bit just gets in the way.

I'm a bit stuck at the moment. I should get someone else to do my programming stuff and let me concentrate on other things. My problem is funding. However, I hope to have that sorted soon (ish).