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I've always been interested in technology, but my passion for computers got serious around middle school, when my Dad brought out his old Commodore 64 and got me setup with just the computer and the beginner's manual.
Check out the manual here!
https://archive.org/details/basic-programming-for-the-commodore-64-instructors-manual/
https://archive.org/details/basic-programming-for-the-commodore-64-instructors-manual/
That was the first of me learning to code. I wrote games, screensavers, fun utilities and tools. I wrote my own version of Paint. I wrote my own word processor and had it save to the floppy and print to an IBM dot matrix printer. It wasn't anything fancy but I was proud of it. And boy, you should've seen the teacher's reaction seeing my paper that I typed printed on tractor feed paper!
This picture was when I first started on it. It's been years since then and I eventually want to get it back up and running someday...
Even though I was born in the 2000s, I’ve daily-driven not only the Commodore 64, but also DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, Windows 98SE 😎, Windows 2000, Windows XP 😍, Windows 7, Windows 10, and Windows 11. I even gave Vista a try… but that only lasted a week. 😉
I still keep a couple of old machines running old software—both for fun and so I can run older programs natively whenever I need or want to. (You can spot these in My Computers.)
I've mostly worked with script-based and modular programming but never really got into OOP (never had a need to). I've dabbled with HTML and done some fun stuff with it. I think many languages are cool, but haven't been motivated enough to learn them... yet.
My core interest in computers is in hardware, configuration, and networks. It's cool how servers can create a world that other client computers get to explore and use. (For more on this, check out the Frankenstein Project!)
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