Re: What do you do in real life?

[Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com>]

In article <z7mdnRFXMcmb6vzUnZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
 Boot Zero <apple@bidlink.net> wrote:

> All,
> 
> 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.
> 
> I started with A2 BBSing in 1983, and now I build content management 
> systems of streamed content for large corporations. User login, 
> registration, admin, chat, content management.  Back then it was a 
> message board, now its a blog.  Funny how 26 years later, it's still the 
> same shit.
> 
> I bet many of us have landed in interesting positions in technology.
> 
> Eight bit computing is a nice escape from modern computing.  So I ask 
> readers of c.s.apple2 -- what do you do in the real  life?  What do you 
> do for a living?

When I was in 6th grade the schools that had any (desktop) computers had 
Apple ][+s and that was my first exposure to desktops. A friend's father 
worked at a nearby college and would sometimes let us play games on the 
TTYs. Stayed with 8-bit machines through high school and then started 
moving up. After college I spent about 15 years working as a programmer 
in the banking industry. Initially on an NCR mainframe, using a language 
that looked an awful lot like 6502 assembly. I credit my Apple //e, 
Nibble magazine and the inability to afford a Pascal compiler as a 
teenager with getting me in the door there. When they moved on to 
desktop solutions instead of dumb terminals for their clients I was 
among the lead programmers. Left there a couple of years ago to go solo, 
and I'll write for pretty much platform.

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