Category: Tech
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Genesis Incunabula Exordium
I’m thinking about taking my blog in a different direction. It’s been a really big deal for me to step out and toss my scribblings out into the ether. I’ve been writing on and off since I was a kid .I liked writing papers back in my college days. I love researching and learning. I’ve…
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TOPO talk to me
The summer I turned ten, I went to a week long computer camp at the high school. The computers were Apple IIe and the language was LOGOS. It was super fun. There was something special at the end of camp. It was a robot. A REAL robot!! When I was a kid, robots in my…
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Prodigal Sears
In a prominent location facing out from an end cap sat a TI-99 display at Sears. My brother and I always got sucked into its gravitational pull. We’d play games then badger whichever parental unit was with us to purchase said game. The mall was a decent distance from our house and we didn’t go…
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QWERTY
Tech wars for dominance go way back. One dust-up still impacts the modern world – QWERTY. When typewriters were first developed, there was no standard keyboard layout. One of the first keyboards was like a piano and had 28 keys arranged alphabetically. Another had all upper case keys. Another had keys for both upper and…
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VCR Machine
My parents got a VCR for the family one Christmas. We weren’t earlier adaptors like some folks in town. Some family friends across town always had the latest tech. They had at least two VCRs and had thousands of tapes. Tapes were everywhere with handwritten labels. The quality varied wildly. You had to watch one…
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The Clicker
I have two in the living room – one for the rarely used DVD player and the other for the Roku tv which is constantly misplaced. Most of the televisions and media devices I’ve purchased as an adult all came with remote controls. The remote that came with our sound system had a…
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TI 99/4A
Our first home computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. It looked like silver typewriter with white letters on black keys. The keys were cube like and could migrate painlessly to an adding machine. It was set up in the family room in the front corner right by a window. Games and accessories would magically appear.…
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LOGO
My first programming language was LOGO. My parents signed me up for a week long computer camp at the high school when I was elementary school. I don’t remember who else attended it but I vividly remember the computer lab with all the Apple IIe’s. We didn’t have a computer at home. It was amazing…
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Old Dotty
Back when we have an old HP clone PC, my dad got the family a dot matrix printer. There was always a box of continuous paper with perforated edges sitting on the floor tucked under the computer desk. My brother and I would raid the box for sketch paper or writing paper or paper to…
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What This Is All About
I’ve wanted to blog for a long time. I always knew I wanted to talk about technology. It’s a huge part of my life. I’ve worked as a programmer/developer/software engineer for the vast majority of my professional life. I grew up with technology. My professional life is fulled with DB2, SQL, MVS, TSO, VSAM files,…
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