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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">A female, must have passed on to other games long ago, didn't answer my poll anyway http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Whoa, another one who didn't answe my poll (Digging further back)

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Boy, does that bring back memories. Tactics II was one of the first four wargames in my collection. (1914 was the first; I'm not sure what order I got the next three in.)

The first time I posted in this thread, I was 42. I'll be 44 at the end of this month.

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I'm 17 years old. It seems here is quite a lot older people so I'm nearly kid compared to the others http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

I'm new player, got my SE4 only about month ago and I haven't yet played any game to the end. I have five PBW games going and only one has over 100 turns played so I don't have much experience. Perhaps I should have trained against computer a little before join PBW games but IMHO the games against computer aer very boring (I have started many games but none of them exceed 100 turns http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif )

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">My High School had one of the few computer labs in the city at the time. Learned basic and assembler on a PDP 8. With a paper tape reader and teletype terminal and a whopping 500k of core memory! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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the age thing, mental or phyical.

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The first computer I ever used was a Commodore pet. It had a small green monochrome screen and a tape drive. It took forever to load programs from the tape, but it was so cool! It came with some simple programs for word processing and math and so on, and it had a few cool games: Space Invaders, a racing game, a labyrinth monster game, and a mining game. You could write your own BASIC programs in it, too, but back then I didn't know how to program. (Much later, I first learned how to program in BASIC on the Apple IIE.)

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I'm 25, used to work for a while as a network admin, now interpreter/translator. I live in Lithuania (that's in Europe at the Baltic sea http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ).
Used to play fps games but now heavily addicted to SE4 (got it for almost a year now). First space game was Elite. So far no experience in Stars! or MOO. Looking forward to MOO3.
Maybe I'm fond of statistics or something... http://web.init.lt/~pablo/se4/who.htm

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">My first computer was the Apple II+, purchased in the spring of 1981...yes 1981! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

No drives at all, you saved your "stuff" to a common tape on tape recorder and loaded it from the tape recoder.

The keyboard only typed in capitals.

IIRC, it came in 16K, 32K and 48K memory. I splurged big time for the 48K. And later, I did an upgrade to 64K.

I made so many modifications to it, that it took years before I bought my first Macintosh.

And the original cost was more than the price of most personal computers today!

But it was a marvel! I too learned to program in "Applesoft basic" which is a modified form of Basic.

I also did some machine language programming. It was all done directly and by hand without any of the aids which are available today.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pablo, have you seen The Encyclopedia Malfadorica demographics page? Perhaps you'd consider adding your data to that page in some reader-friendly format..? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif