Re: What do you do in real life?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Boot Zero wrote:

> ...what do you do in the real life?  What do you 
> do for a living?

I retired in 2000, so what I do now is play with Apple II's when I'm
not traveling, or doing digital photography, or working on the house,
or...  ;-)

My childhood was photography, chemistry, and electronics; my education
was in nuclear Physics; my career was in mainframe OSs and compilers (at
Burroughs), then RISC architecture, OSs, compilers, and server systems
(at HP).

The first computer I used was a Librascope LGP-30, the first one I
programmed was an IBM 1620, and after about a dozen others I bought
my first Apple ][+ in late 1980.  I think you could say that I never
got over it.  ;-)

What I love best about the Apple II is, as Andy said:

"...[making] stuff on memory-constrained devices with weak CPUs run as
efficiently as possible, coding in assembly language when necessary."

I'd probably add "and getting startling results whenever possible",
but I'm sure Andy meant that, too!  ;-)

-michael

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