History of My Encounters with Computers

I've been playing with computers for over 40 years.

I started in the Army, using (by today's standards, pretty simple) computers to translate analog vectors and ranges to relative 3-dimensional coordinates, to UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) grid coordinates - and back.

Back then we used 300 baud modems to transmit coordinates between sites. I left the Army and began working with Ma Bell, in analog and digital communications. We moved from asynchronous to synchronous modems, to digital (end-to-end) communications for major businesses (and governments), to just about everybody having modems, and now more and more people having digital connectivity via the Internet.

During that time, I got into programming computers, starting with mainframe (Big Blue) computers, soon after into mincomputers, then into microcomputers. I have worked with many different operating systems (IBM DOS,MVS, CMS, Unix, XENIX, LINUX, MS/DOS, LISA, Mac, Windows) and many different languages (COBOL, PL/1, FORTRAN, several Assembler languages, BASIC, "C" language, C++, Visual Basic, Java, HTML, Java Script).

My Objective

What I enjoy doing with my knowledge of computers is putting that knowledge to use, helping businesses and people do more in less time with the help of computers.

With my background in computers and communications, I am able to find ways for computers to exchange information, and for people to use computers to exchange information with each other and with their computers. I have hopes of making that communication easier and more useful for everybody that I can.