/me will be 32 next month, but only physically, mentally still in early 20s...First computer was Sinclair ZX81, still got it here gathering dust. Got few more exams to BS on Faculty of forestry here, in the mean time running my own small computer shop (mainly maintenance).

Been watercooling for almost 2 yrs now, one more of my (never cheap) hobbies...Got a lovely wife that can stand kitchen full of tools, living room full of computer parts, and a drill press on the balcony :)

35
pediatric physiatrist
(pediatric rehabilitation)
been tooling around with computers since HS.

Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. :P

37
Clinical Psychologist (specialty: Neuropsychology).
Been at it since my Commodore 64 in 1982.

I just got a drill press this weekend :D and have it sitting on my balcony...
unfortuatly the neigbours complained last night :mad:
i was grinding a piece of my case i just cut, and need to get the rough edges off...
now i have to find an alternative solution... untill then no mods :cry:

LOL MadHacker, too bad about the neighbours,
mine never said a word except giving me an eye when told what I'm making (u know, they politely ask what's goin' on, and when told that it's a watercooling for computer, you gain that 'look, nod, nod, eye' :E

maybe you should try to do it in afternoon, here nobody complains if you do your stuff after 5 pm till say 8 pm or so, it's considered mostly OK...

Sad thing is it was around 4:30PM sunday... i always stop what ever i'm doing at 8:00
I just have a F_CK_NG _SSH_L_ for neighbors(want to buy a vowel)
I'll figure something out....

wow, this post is still alive!!!

I turn 35 in 2 days (28th March).

BSc(Hons), majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Advanced Physics.

First experience with computers was the High School's solitary TRS-80 Model 1 at age 12. Got own my first computer at the age of 13, being a Tandy Color Computer with the speedy Motorola 6809e CPU inside, and immediately taught myself assembler and coded up a few 3-D maze games at age 14 (bit like the old Macintosh MazeWars if anyone remembers it). Got my first PC at end 2000 (had dealt primarily with high-end Unix workstations up until that point), and got into water-cooling about 2.5yrs ago.

18 years old, getting ready for college

I am still alive and I think a year older now ;)

I guess I'll answer this time around

28 next month. BS in Computer Science. Working part time on my Masters (in a computer interfacing class as we speak) while work as a IT Manager.

btw, MC68832 chips just suck.

Been WCing for about a year but I'm a power tool freak as much as a computer geek. =) :shrug:

Interesting reading that's for sure!

Let's see, I've been to college for everything from Math and Comp to English and Psych. Finally landed a degree in Accounting which is what I do now, but I do it from the systems side of things kind of being the go between for all the accountants to the systems that are supposed to give them all the information they could ever want. Very large linked spreadsheets, which can be adapted to any change in base information or logic are my specialty and I can literally bring the strongest single cpu machines generally available today to their knees. I also do local (finance folks) tech support, pulling machines apart as needed and showing them how to get their machines to do their will. When not doing that, I'm working on Security and Exchange Commission filings and monthly/quarterly/annual financial statements and related stuff. Computers are "more" of a hobby that augments my career, and when it gets too thick I either consult the experts (and what a bunch of them you folks are), or I send a team of experts to work on getting back to me with an answer in a week or month.

Home fun includes, tinkering with PCs for performance, and online gaming of the EQ/Daoc/Wow variety. There are practically no places anywhere that test what happens to a machine when its trying to run 3 programs, an online game, and maintain an ADSL feed at the same time. I can tell you what happens to them isn't pretty.

All in all, pretty boring stuff and I am humbled by the presences in these forums.

$.02

Memory is the first thing to go

Age 37

46 ma applied arts/sciences diesel 8yrs as a jet mech for navy . started in 78 with c oops ansi c unix os dec pdp-7 bcpl&b typeless .