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monkeyson |
Message #1827, posted at 15:49, 6/11/2000, in reply to message #1826 |
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I'm 20 too, and have had an income which I'm thinking of disposing of soon, possibly on one of those nice 'megas. |
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Mark Quint |
Message #1828, posted by ToiletDuck at 19:29, 6/11/2000, in reply to message #1827 |
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hi, im 16, and i'd like to think that im gonna be buying a nice nig chunky new Omega (gotta find a ...bit of cash first) but only this june i bought a nice sweet Athlon :-) |
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[Steve] |
Message #1829, posted at 21:56, 6/11/2000, in reply to message #1828 |
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SWEEETTTT??????????!?!?!???????!??!??!? (me too) |
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Steve |
Message #1831, posted at 12:56, 7/11/2000, in reply to message #1823 |
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I'm 21, and if you take the damn student loans into account, then I'm currently many pounds in debt, - hopefully that will change within the near future though. (I did manage to buy a Kinetic over the summer) |
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jess |
Message #1832, posted at 15:28, 7/11/2000, in reply to message #1831 |
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Pass the Zimmer frame, I'm 36 |
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arenaman |
Message #1834, posted at 00:52, 8/11/2000, in reply to message #1823 |
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Well I'm 20 and have no money left due to spending it on a new RiscPC a few months ago.
If only I'd waited for the Omega...
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The Doctor |
Message #1835, posted at 04:52, 8/11/2000, in reply to message #1834 |
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28 today!
Thats it, I'm past it.
:-( |
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jukebox |
Message #1839, posted at 22:57, 8/11/2000, in reply to message #1838 |
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i turned forty last month.
to look at the wakefield show this year there seems to be a lot of older folk than me hanging around. But thay will not admit it. |
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[Steve] |
Message #1843, posted at 22:09, 9/11/2000, in reply to message #1842 |
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*runs* |
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mripley |
Message #1845, posted at 11:48, 10/11/2000, in reply to message #1842 |
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>In defence of this thread, DOB may have little to do with "youngness" but it does have >(something) to do with a new and (at least potentially) expanding and sustainable user base, >or lack thereof. Since that was the purpose of this thread (to find out one way or another) I >wonder if these 20 odd posts have answered [steve]'s curiosity? Eh? Eh? ?hmmm if you say so, in which case. Reaching 80 was an achivement 30 years ago but quite normal now. Likewise when the twentysomethings here are in their 80's I'll be over a hundred along with an awful lot of other folk over a hundred. Being a hundred will be "normal". The computer purchasing public is NOT under 30 it more likely under 50 (who bought BBC's, Dragons, Ataris, TRS-80's, Spectrums, ZX80's , ZX81's, Pet's, C64's). This all means that those in their 40's will be buying computers for another 60 years !!! I think the issue of youth being necessary to create a demand for computer purchases is totally mistaken. Try assessing computer literacy (or lack of) which can affect all ages.
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[Steve] |
Message #1847, posted at 21:40, 10/11/2000, in reply to message #1846 |
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Bah I think I'm being run out of town.... |
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jukebox |
Message #1848, posted at 22:47, 10/11/2000, in reply to message #1847 |
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Not really, I think you’ve hit a nerve. I brought my lad up on spectrum and acorn electron. They used to use the BBC and riscos at school. But that all chained 3 years ago. Now it’s nothing but PC. But he still says my A3010 is better at most things than the PC. But I know to all his mates at school, mines an old relic. |
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jukebox |
Message #1849, posted at 22:09, 15/11/2000, in reply to message #1847 |
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Whats up!! Cat got your tung steve. Come on, they don't meen to run you out of town. We need folk like you, if only to brag that you use riscos to other young ones. Haw else are we going to promote our systems. Certainly not by advertising in large medias. |
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rich |
Message #1851, posted at 11:00, 16/11/2000, in reply to message #1850 |
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No, really, I will produce some other images soon... |
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stuartb |
Message #1852, posted at 22:24, 26/11/2000, in reply to message #1823 |
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For what it may be worth I'm 22, and I'm genuinely surprised at the age range that other people've quoted. I was at the Wakefield Show three years ago and, to be perfectly honest, was convinced that I was one of the youngest people who'd even remember an Acorn. Apparently, and thankfully, not... |
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richard.cheng |
Message #1853, posted at 13:08, 29/11/2000, in reply to message #1823 |
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I'm 21. |
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Gulli |
Message #1854, posted at 18:43, 29/11/2000, in reply to message #1853 |
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Summing it up, here's the age count so far: 16: 1
18: 1
20: 3
21: 2
22: 1
23: 1
27: 1
28: 2
32: 1
35: 1
36: 1
40: 1
42: 1 I may have missed a couple but the age grouping goes like this: Under 20: 2 (11.76%)
20 - 29: 10 (58.83%)
30 - 39: 3 (17.65%)
Above 40: 2 (11.76%) Doesn't look all too bad but probably more accurate results could be obtained by setting this up as a Poll on the front page?
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jukebox |
Message #1855, posted at 21:07, 29/11/2000, in reply to message #1854 |
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Not bad for 17 people. i have seen children at the wakefield show playing the games. Last year and the year before my lad went and he was 16 last year. This poll would be a great idea. If people only had to log there age to it and not there name. Thay might not be embarused as much. Then again thay might abuse it, so loging on first might be a good thing. |
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I don't have tourettes you're just a cun |
Message #1856, posted by [mentat] at 10:17, 30/11/2000, in reply to message #1855 |
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Whoohoo, I'm in the numerical majority, apparently. Gulli, you must have been really bored. Wish I hads that much time on my hands ATM :-( I'm not sure that this would make a very good poll though...not very RISC OS. |
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jukebox |
Message #1861, posted at 22:19, 1/12/2000, in reply to message #1860 |
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Just a thought. How many people are registered to this iconbar and why they haven’t put their two peneth worth in. And put your clock wright [Edited by jukebox at 22:21, 1/12/2000] |
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andrew |
Message #1864, posted at 23:11, 14/12/2000, in reply to message #1863 |
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Lee's just drawn my attention to this thread.
I'm 24.
It seems a good age spread to me in the Acorn Arcade forum.
I've been using Acorn's since 1984 I'm proud to say. And there are people who have been using computers way before I was transported here on a meteorite ('born' to you lot)
However, it's the enthusiasm and other qualities which are important not always the length of time you've owned a machine since. I've only intensified my programming relatively recently I suppose. |
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jukebox |
Message #1868, posted at 21:21, 15/12/2000, in reply to message #1867 |
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is this pole of ages going on then. pole of ages,
is it to be,
let me know your age to be. hay remeber rock of ages, i could make a song out of this :-).
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jukebox |
Message #1871, posted at 19:54, 16/12/2000, in reply to message #1870 |
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You have heard the saying; the older you get the dafter you get. This is true but if you are only as young as you feel, then I’ll act daft and not care what anyone says. So don’t worry about your age and just live. Like Christmas it will come sooner than you think, then it will be too late to do anything. [Edited by jukebox at 19:56, 16/12/2000] |
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jukebox |
Message #1873, posted at 21:16, 18/12/2000, in reply to message #1872 |
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now this one sound an old b****r, but i would not know. he did not mention his age in this forum. |
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Mark Quint |
Message #1865, posted by ToiletDuck at 13:58, 15/6/2002, in reply to message #1864 |
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yay u started using Acorns in the year that i was born 
thats a good point you make though, as is evident in this topic that certainly the RiscOS market has a very wide range of users age wise.  which is good as then the "best" from all areas is contributed into the market |
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[Steve] |
Message #1860, posted at 13:58, 15/6/2002, in reply to message #1859 |
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 is the best! |
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Gulli |
Message #1859, posted at 13:58, 15/6/2002, in reply to message #1858 |
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Surely you meant "  "
Yes, of course |
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alpha |
Message #1862, posted at 13:58, 15/6/2002, in reply to message #1861 |
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There are just under 300 registered forum members, but I guess they don't all check the forum that often and don't all think age is that important . I'm 19 btw. |
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Mark Quint |
Message #1863, posted by ToiletDuck at 13:58, 15/6/2002, in reply to message #1862 |
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Woohoo!
im the youngest on this board (16)
(not bad considering i've been using Risc Os for 8 years)
[Edited by toiletduck at 09:36, 3/12/2000]
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ams |
Message #1874, posted at 13:58, 15/6/2002, in reply to message #1873 |
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Lucky guess julian, I am over the hill at 39. And to my programming friends that decimal not hex |
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