| Hi all, I am from Chile in South America. I’m afraid, I’m maybe a bit old for your media, but my interest in computers is still alive and young.
I started programming in a decimal 2nd generation Standard Electric Lorenz computer with no compiler, nor assembler, nor screens, just a teletype to punch our machine programs on paper tapes. Then I had to embrace the IBM era with FORTRAN, assembler and COBOL, the Digital with BASIC until the microcomputers arrived. Then I had the pleasure to have a whole computer for myself. I could make some hacking in assembler with that elemental CP/M OS and some project development, first in BASIC (again), until I was introduced to C (great day, I’m still fond of C, programming C and C++).
I now am in love with open source (and Linux, of course), because at the beginning of IBM era, maybe not many remember, but we, the systems programmers had access to the Operating System source. It’s very refreshing to have back again access to the inners of the operating system source, after the long obscurantist Microsoft era. As you can see Linux is my first UNIX experience, I am still a bit puzzled with its file structure: where the applications reside, where I can find documentation, etc. Despite my long experience, in Linux and UNIX I am a newbie. | 
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