Re: What do you do in real life?

["Simon D. Williams" <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Boot Zero wrote:

> Anyone who is lurking in this forum has been immersed in technology for at 
> least the last twenty years.  Many have gone on to jobs in technology.

Not in my case. My introduction to computing was my younger brother 
getting a 16K TRS-80 around 1981... I was 14 at the time and thought the 
computer was the most disappointing thing ever. I took art & design in 
college and went on to a series of menial jobs punctuated by long periods 
of unemployment. It wasn't until 1998 that I used a computer again (Win95) 
and was once again utterly disappointed by the experience... however, by 
that time it was quite apparent that it was a necessary evil and I wound 
up buying an iMac. In 2000 or 2001 I bought a complete IIc at the thrift 
shop (mainly out of boredom, not knowing what it was at all) and after 
scanning the manuals for a few hours I wrote my first AppleSoft program. 
No "good old days" for this cat ;-)

] SIMON D WILLIAMS