Does Not Compute

I’ve been a self-taught, figure-it-out, just-do-it technology lover. I’m not sure when it was that I decided I loved working with computers. I remember having a TRS-80 that I would write little programs for and save them on the cassette deck. The programs were just a glorified screen saver, but they were pretty cool at the time. However, that didn’t really grab my attention.

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In grade school I always enjoyed the limited time I was able to play on the Apple IIe and other computers we had available. I had a few friends with Commodore 64’s and Commodore 128’s, as well as getting my taste of compuer graphics with the Amiga we had in art class in high school. College gave me more exposure as well as my first class in computer science, which I quickly dropped after the first class covered how to turn on the machine.

So what is it about this thing called the computer that’s grabbed my world? Is it just the computer or has it been due to the Internet?

What do you love about these things? Is it the device itself that you enjoy and the different things it can be programmed to do, or is it just because it’s one of the easiest and most useful ways to connect to the World Wide Web.

Since you’re reading the “Computers” section of this website, what are you really interested in? One thing? Both things? or just about everything?

Let me know.