Age: A little older than my teeth
Height: Too short for my mass
Beard: Yes and getting longer every day. I've had one since I was 16 give or take a few years.
First Mac: That I've owned? My Macintosh Plus. First used? A Macintosh 512K.
Favorite Macs: The one I'm using - lately that would be my PowerBook 520c
Favorite Apple App: HyperCard
Most Preferred Mac OS: System 7.6.1
Strengths: I'm a fair programmer - my full time vocation until switching to management.
Weaknesses: Too many hobbies to keep up - retro tech, analog photography, building electric guitars (can't play worth a damn), any orphaned computer.
Favorite Classic Mac Game: Leemings
Windows PCs: Various. I also have a Tandy TRS-80 Model 102 portable computer, TI 99/4A, Mac SE, Mac SE FDHD, Mac Plus, PowerBook 520c, MacBook 2010, OLPC XO-1
I've been fascinated by computers since the 70's. Was planning to become a professional photographer and took computer programming classes for fun. Dropped photography for computer science. Most of my career I worked in the Microsoft stack. Now I manage people instead of programming.
I've been dabbling in HyperCard programming recently and wrote a simple game to play the Royal Game of Ur. I'll eventually rewrite it in C. Most likely Think C. I've started buying all of the computers I couldn't afford when I was young and learning to repair/restore them. My soldering skills are minimal but improving. I most recently rebuilt the batteries to my PowerBook 520c.
I've also recently started back into analog photography. Purchased a Chinese twin lens reflex camera with a sticky shutter and rebuilt it. Working on rebuilding my black and white darkroom, etc.
My goal is to acquire an A/UX compatible Quadra and get back into Unix programming. I miss using Unix back in college. Linux doesn't scratch that old time Unix itch.
About the handle, _SDGOL_. it's based on a character in a television serial written by the characters in Heinlein's book "The Rolling Stones". Supreme Dark Galactic Overlord - Scourge of the Spaceways. My kids insisted I join Steam so they could subject me to modern gaming - this was the only name I could come up with for the account.
Height: Too short for my mass
Beard: Yes and getting longer every day. I've had one since I was 16 give or take a few years.
First Mac: That I've owned? My Macintosh Plus. First used? A Macintosh 512K.
Favorite Macs: The one I'm using - lately that would be my PowerBook 520c
Favorite Apple App: HyperCard
Most Preferred Mac OS: System 7.6.1
Strengths: I'm a fair programmer - my full time vocation until switching to management.
Weaknesses: Too many hobbies to keep up - retro tech, analog photography, building electric guitars (can't play worth a damn), any orphaned computer.
Favorite Classic Mac Game: Leemings
Windows PCs: Various. I also have a Tandy TRS-80 Model 102 portable computer, TI 99/4A, Mac SE, Mac SE FDHD, Mac Plus, PowerBook 520c, MacBook 2010, OLPC XO-1
I've been fascinated by computers since the 70's. Was planning to become a professional photographer and took computer programming classes for fun. Dropped photography for computer science. Most of my career I worked in the Microsoft stack. Now I manage people instead of programming.
I've been dabbling in HyperCard programming recently and wrote a simple game to play the Royal Game of Ur. I'll eventually rewrite it in C. Most likely Think C. I've started buying all of the computers I couldn't afford when I was young and learning to repair/restore them. My soldering skills are minimal but improving. I most recently rebuilt the batteries to my PowerBook 520c.
I've also recently started back into analog photography. Purchased a Chinese twin lens reflex camera with a sticky shutter and rebuilt it. Working on rebuilding my black and white darkroom, etc.
My goal is to acquire an A/UX compatible Quadra and get back into Unix programming. I miss using Unix back in college. Linux doesn't scratch that old time Unix itch.
About the handle, _SDGOL_. it's based on a character in a television serial written by the characters in Heinlein's book "The Rolling Stones". Supreme Dark Galactic Overlord - Scourge of the Spaceways. My kids insisted I join Steam so they could subject me to modern gaming - this was the only name I could come up with for the account.
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