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All About Me

Okay, it's not really All About Me, it's only a Little About Me. It's mainly a little about my background in programming. Without giving away my age, my first programming consisted of having cards punched by a "keypunch" machine. The punched cards would then be stacked in a machine that read the punches with feelers that went through the holes and contacted a metal cylinder. This programmed the machine as it was running.
Following the above experience I got to program an actual computer. The computer was a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP 8. It had a whole 4k of RAM memory. On the front panel were 16 switches representing a binary word. To "boot strap" the computer to run, you had to set the 16 switches for the first word and press the "enter" button. Then you would repeat the process for the next word and so on until all the "boot strap" code was entered. Once the computer was "booted-up" you would communicate with it via a TTY or teletype machine. The TTY would read a punched paper tape as input and print out on the roll of yellow TTY paper for output.

The next period for me was with mini-computers and huge hard drives. These computers were programmed to test electronic EPBX (telephone) equipment and determine failures. The hard drives were about 18 inches across and were plugged into the hard drive reader.

About this time the so-called Personal Computer made it's debut. I learned BASIC programming on a Commadore VIC - 20 connected to a TV set. Programs were saved to a cassette tape recorder. Next I moved up to a Commodore 64 computer and added a 5 1/2 inch floppy disk drive. It was still connected to the TV set.

At my work we got some IBM AT's to work with. These computers had their own monitors and floppy drives. Again most progamming was done in "Assembly" language or in "BASIC". We also had some Hewlett Packard industrial type desk top computers. These were progammed in BASIC to control test machines.

With the cost of PC's dropping and performance improving, PC's started to fill the workplace and many homes. Laptops were now showing up everywhere and could handle large programs of all types, making them indispenable to most businessmen and women.

Now the web is king, and I've learned HTML, JavaScript and Style Sheets--all the ingredients of web design. In addition, I'm working with digital images and graphics, which go hand-in-hand with web page design. Web page design is both challenging and rewarding. The sky's the limit as to what you can do. You are limited only by your creative and programming abilities.