About my Computing InterestsSome of my Computing HistoryI guess that growing up as I did, with Doctor Who as my hero, I always had a keen interest in computers. My parents weren't terribly wealthy though and for the most part, the best I had in my early years was an old typewriter. If nothing else, at least I taught myself to type on it - though I had to unlearn and relearn several years later when I did a touch typing course. My first forays into the world of
electronic computing came as a result of playing with my father's Texas
Instruments calculator - mostly when he wasn't looking. My other
experience came from an old VIC 20 clone. Instead of labouriously
typing in code from library books like all my other peers, I decided to
start writing my own. I pretty soon exceeded the 16K Memory. My
parents, seeing my interest finally decided to buy me an IBM (Luggable)
- ok, so they didn't really buy it for me, they bought it for their
business. In any case, my IBM compatible career was born.
I started writing applications using BASIC, then GWBASIC and finally QBASIC for my father to use for his hydrostatic calculations. Then, not long after I left school, I got Windows /286 and somehow got hold of a beta copy of Windows 3.0.
My Computing BlogI've got a computing blog at http://dominogavin.blogspot.com here are some recent feeds from it.
Other People's BlogsI'm very widely read and I generally highlight the best bits of other people's blogs for other people to read.You can read some of my recent shared reads from Google Reader by clicking on this link. Current Technology InterestsMy computing interests cover a wide range of things including the following; |
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