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Women and computing
« on: April 12, 2009, 04:44:05 AM »
I just read a post that exclaimed that their wife used to have a Mac back in the day. Some of us have known several women "back in the day" that had Mac's... but how many of you have ever known the fairer sex to own Amiga's? Truly owned them (not property of their fathers or brothers). From the pics you see in these conventions and the like, I'm guessing very few. I know I would have felt a gal was especially 'special' if she had ever been into the Amiga.

Kiki doesn't count  ;-)    LOL!

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Re: Women and computing
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2009, 10:15:20 AM »
Plenty bints had Amigas that they bought all by themselves. We got Cecilia and Blobzie here and I suspect Cammy and Boudicca also bought theirs without any prodding from siblings.
 

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Re: Women and computing
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2009, 10:37:14 AM »
I know several women here in Finland who are Amiga users. Some even active today... at least in forums and meetings ;) But some actually own and use Amigas today too. I could mention my girlfriend, who has used Amigas almost all of her life. And for a curiosity Finnish Amiga Users Group's long term chair(wo?)man is woman. :)

Edit: btw. I don't (or didn't) know any Mac owning women ;)

Edit2: BBS and demoscene had its share of Amiga women too ;)
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Re: Women and computing
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2009, 03:44:50 PM »
Not Amiga, but swedish actress Rebecka Liljeberg has been a C programmer. Years ago I watched a computer/gaming program interview her, and she was really entusiastic about C programming (which I still hadn't gotten the chance to learn, but then I didn't use any computer either).

I was googling and found these images from that same program:

http://www.goodwin.ee/sajber/screenshots.html
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Re: Women and computing
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2009, 01:04:00 AM »
Women are too "practical" to be into retro-computing
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Re: Women and computing
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2009, 02:32:35 PM »
What about retro-gaming?
You give them the option of pacman / superfrog / megaball over the latest XBox miracle and see what they pick.
Superfrog wins every time!
 

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Re: Women and computing
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2009, 03:24:47 PM »
Fairer sex? Pha!




Women are sooooo overrated...
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Re: Women and computing
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2009, 04:45:15 PM »
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Women are too "practical" to be into retro-computing


The question was "have ever known", so it includes the time when Amiga wasn't retro ;) There was such a time you know :P

Not sure about that "practical" part either in all cases ;)

And young kids (girls too) seem to enjoy old Amiga games still :)
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Re: Women and computing
« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2009, 05:54:09 PM »
@ Speel

Damn, that one on the left looks like a tow-truck driver!
 

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Re: Women and computing
« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2009, 06:55:41 PM »
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Fairer sex? Pha!

Women are sooooo overrated...


LOL! What's wrong with the cutie on the right? Is that a purse in her lap or some kind of chastity protection scheme to fend off tow truck drivers?  :lol:
 

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Re: Women and computing
« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2009, 10:34:32 PM »
That 'cutie' on the right is NOT cute!
Btw. I think it's just a leather handbag.

It's our favorite Dutch asbo (something alike that is) family: the Tokkies!
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Re: Women and computing
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2009, 06:27:44 PM »
Ahh yes, gratuitous exploitation of Eurotrash. lol  We've got tons of examples, just like the Tokkies here in Wisconsin U.S.A. Sometimes it's entertaining to turn OFF the tele and turn ON the police scanner.  lol

BTW: I guess that chick on the right is the GF of the son. So she's not related yet at least. And she -still- looks cute, at least by that profile by gum! What, is she missing teeth or something? For comparisons sake, I should take some random pics of the shebeasts® draggin their knuckles around here for you. To say that femininity has not reached certain parts of WI would be an understatement    :-(
 

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Re: Women and computing
« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2009, 09:18:17 PM »
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BTW: I guess that chick on the right is the GF of the son. So she's not related yet at least. And she -still- looks cute, at least by that profile by gum! What, is she missing teeth or something? For comparisons sake, I should take some random pics of the shebeasts® draggin their knuckles around here for you. To say that femininity has not reached certain parts of WI would be an understatement    :-(
Oh dear,
Well, here in Groningen, femininity is thriving well (as it's a student city - 1/3rd of the population is student).
Good news for you guys, but I only notice the bad parts (I'm not into women, as you might have noticed)
Bad parts as in completely selfish taking part of traffic, laughing when they cause near-accidents, being loud in the train and bus, and they have mobile phones 24h a day attached to their ears.

Ergo, everybody has to moan about something, no? :lol:
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Re: Women and computing
« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2009, 02:07:19 AM »
Oh man, the cell phone thing with women is rampant here too. I'm not for all these idiotic laws and mandates, but if they would banish phones from public existence, that would be for the betterment of all mankind (people think it strange when I tell them I refuse to own one). And this texting business is beyond ridiculous. Definitely worth PM'ing about  ;-)   Many women en masse do seem to be going out of their way to become less attractive as the decades pass. The pickins are gettin' slim (how's that for a pun)! In their slight defence, they probably no longer know how or care to conduct themselves ladylike, with having been treated poorly by douchebags most of their lives. We've all seen pretty women mismatched with knobs. But that's a whole other chapter!  lol  

Oh - and do many European women walk around looking like they just got out of bed? That's the big "fad" over here right now. Instead of properly doing their hair, they simply ball and tie it up while wearing pajamas and slippers as they go about their day. Idiotic guys are now starting to follow that trend too, but they're usually the same kind of dolts that wear socks and sandals at the same time too.  :crazy:
 

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Re: Women and computing
« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2009, 06:40:05 PM »
While not related to the topic of women and computing as much, I have noticed the stupidity trend over recent years too. You guys should check out this movie "Idiocracy", where an average Joe from our time is frozen and wakes up in the future where everyone in the world is stupid and he's now the smartest man alive. Or this TV series "Nathan Barley", which pretty much sums up how it is now, and what it's like living in a world of idiots.

As for girls using Amigas, I think the best thingg to do is just find a girl who's open minded and introduce her to Amigas and all the great games and creativity software. Don't get your hopes up finding too many girls who already have Amigas, they exist but they're rare. If we want more girls using Amigas, we just have to make them.
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