Ten things to amuse lemmings

[mdlbear]

So, here's my list of 10 things I've done that I don't think many, if any, of the people on my friends list have:

1. Gate-crashed a sold-out Pete Seeger concert at MIT with my father.
2. Ran programs on a vacuum tube computer (a Bendix G-15, if you must know).
3. Worked as a computer programmer more than 40 years ago.
4. Went shopping in the surplus joints on Cortlandt St. in NYC before they were demolished to make way for the World Trade Center. -- turns out jslove has done this, so how about: Wrote one of PC Magazine's top 100 websites of April 1995.
5. Helped build a bridge (over the creek in our back yard, with my father; it was overdesigned for a footbridge; you could have driven a VW across it if it had been a few feet wider).
6. Rode the last run of the California Zephyr from Oakland to Boulder (rode back on Amtrak).
7. Attended the Homebrew Computer Club meeting where Woz and Jobs introduced the Apple I. (Also the one where they read Bill Gates' letter declaring software sharing to be theft.)
8. Saw the National Air and Space Museum before it was officially open to the public.
9. Wrote a commercially-somewhat-successful realtime OS kernel (ZRTS, on the Zilog Z8000)
10. Lent a guitar to Spider Robinson for a concert (at the Baycon where he was GOH).

Comments

[jslove.livejournal.com]

I've done #4. And Canal Street; that's still there but the surplus shops I went to are mostly (or maybe by now, all) gone.

I used a computer 38 years ago, but I didn't actually have a *paid* gig until 1973, only 32 years ago.