Looks like I've been tagged by Dan Miser, now I'm supposed to share 5 things about me that most people wouldn't know.
- My junior year in high school I was in the very first computer class offered by Waukesha South High. We had 1 TRS computer with an LED readout (no monitor), plotter (no printer), using a card reader instead of a keyboard and cassette tapes for data storage. And it was so cool I used to cut other classes to sit in the computer lab.
- While serving in the Marines, I spent several weeks in the summer of '83 at Area 25 for a training exercise. I didn't know it at the time, but area 25 is a bit southwest of "Area 51", both are part of Nellis Air Force range / Nevada Nuclear Weapon test site
. And no, I didn't see any aliens or UFO's while I was there.
During my time in the Marine corps, I was the only person I knew with his own computer. In 1984 I purchased an Apple IIc with it's 9" green monochrome monitor, 1mhz CPU, and a whopping 128kb of RAM. I spent many a free hour pouring over my stack of Nibble magazines and my Beagle Bro's "Peek & Poke" charts, banging away writing ProDOS and Pascal programs.
I started working for the family resturant shortly after turning 12 (making I think $1.10 per hour). In the 32 years since then I've never been without a job. I've never been fired or layed off, and I've always had another job lined up when I quit my current one.
I've totaled 3 vehicles and had another 6 or so accidents in my life. I've never been in accident as a passenger in a vehicle, and I've never had a passenger with me in my accidents.