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How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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I'm 46. The oldest thing I can find online is from 1987. (I totally forgot I wrote it.) http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/coda/src/coda/coda-src... (and various other files in that directory) Sorry it's a bit boring, but the "online" requirement kind of skews the answers, doesn't it? Should I upload some more-interesting older code so it can be online too? :)

I was born in 1987

Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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I'm 40. It was rewritten into another language but I wrote the original bra search on victorias secret. I don't remeber the language it was some IBM product but i didn't even have a looping statement you could only loop through data.

http://www.victoriassecret.com/bras/shop-by-size

Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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I'm really old. During 1973-5, I worked at Hewlett Packard's Advanced Product Division in Cupertino. I programmed the HP-21 and HP-25 Pocket Scientific Calculators. The chip architecture was bit serial with 14 decimal digits (56 bits). The HP-21 had 1024 by 10 bits of ROM, the HP-25 had 2046 by 10 bits. The HP-25 was user programmable, storing keystrokes, some strokes merged. There were 49 locations. The original ass…

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