Damn right. I've been handing out merits here since 1982 and I've been mining bitcoins with an abacus long before Satoshi came up with his newfangled computery stuff.
You were lucky! I used to
dream of using an abacus! Would've been a luxury to me. I mined bitcoins for three months while living in a lake. I used to have to get up at three in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel for breakfast, go to work at the bitcoin farm for 3 satoshi a month, and mine bitcoin by carving the operations in to my own arm with broken bottle!