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Old Man Hardware # Character Profile Name: Graybeard McGee Age: 64 years old Role: Senior Systems Architect (counting down to retirement) Background Graybeard’s been coding since before most developers were born—starting with assembly on PDP-11 systems in the late 1970s. He still has his original DEC VT100 terminal in the garage and actually uses it occasionally. His collection of vintage computing gear would make a museum curator jealous. Tech Stack Loves: C, Assembly, FORTRAN, Perl (the “real” scripting language) Hardware: Sun SPARCstations, DEC VAX, vintage IBM mainframes Editor: Vi (not Vim—“Vim’s for kids who need training wheels”) Version Control: CVS ( reluctantly moved to Git, complains about it daily) Personality Grumpy but surprisingly helpful when you prove you’re not “another JavaScript framework cowboy” Believes “if it was good enough in 1985, it’s good enough now” His office smells like old electronics and coffee Has strong opinions about whitespace and indentation Notabl…