I Am a Computer Geek

I have used, worked on, built and programmed computers since the first IBM XT came out. Back when MFM and RLL hard drives were in use. Who remembers using MS-DOS DEBUG.COM to format your hard drive? My first computer was the RadioShack Pocket Computer 2.
In 1993 I was published in Pc-Magazine for a program I wrote in QuickBasic to control the I/O ports on video cards to enable high intensity background colors.
Worked in a shop in Montana for four years where I built hundreds of system's, laid miles of CAT5E cable and setup multiple servers to manage a entire school, both administration and student workstations.

Ya, I am a complete NERD!!!!

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ProudAlaskan · 61-69, M

Wow that's an intense book! By Neal Stephonson? I have not read it but Wikipedia covered it. It sounds interesting.

Just as a thought to ponder:
If time were say a phased loop (for lack of a better or correct term) and the aliens that supposedly keep popping up were actually us from the future trying to fix the wrongs in our past. How would they perceive us now, and how would they try to relate to us?

Anyway, I have to ask how you chose that book to read. The WWII era and the nineties is a significant gap in that it almost certainly wasn't at a yard sale?

greenmountaingal · 70-79, F

I moved into a house where I am renting a room. I have 5 roommates. They are all very computer literate. I am the oldest here and the only woman. My next room roommate has read this book 4 times. He wanted me to read it...maybe so he could discuss it with somebody...? He noticed I read a lot.

Marksman567 · 22-25, M

Sitting in my room playing Minecraft on Windows XP running off a 2gb x86 150gb with a big fat CRT monitor complete with a sleeping cat... Fast forward about ten years and I'm coding VB and C# and running Skyrim loaded with nearly 200 mods on a triple monitor(1920x1080 each) Windows 10 setup with 16gb x64 and a 1tb local HDD + 1tb Network Drive hosted off my old XP machine-turned-server... oh how the time passes 😄

shakenama · M

You were a couple of steps ahead of me.
In 1985 I bought my first computer....A Tandy Color Computer II with 16kb of RAM and 5 1/4" floppy drive. I learned BASIC on that thing

SW-User

Remember using a hole puncher so you could turn the floppy upside down and use the other side?

ProudAlaskan · 61-69, M

LOL!!! I do. That and if you couldn't make the floppy read the disc right, stick it in the freezer for a minute!!!!

greenmountaingal · 70-79, F

Wow. Maybe you can explain the book I'm reading: [i]Cryptonomicon [/i]
by Neal Stephenson

sighmeupforthat · 46-50, M

eh, that's not hard core.

ProudAlaskan · 61-69, M

Your right it isn't! Considering that I never finished high school and I smoke pot every day doesn't change that either. Nor would the fact that I never went to school for any sort of computer training of any type.

Nope it's not! Have a wonderful day though!

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