COMPUTER AUTOBIOGRAPHY
WARNING: I wrote this when I was in high school, so it's probably grossly out of date. I'll update it when I don't feel lazy. Nevertheless, here it is:
My computer interest all began when I was about 5 years old. We had a brand new Macintosh 128K Computer that I loved watching my dad use. I used to sneak up to the computer and fool around with it. At times, I'd even start playing some games. At school, we used Apple ][e's and I took up BASIC programming in first grade, showing off my BASIC knowledge. Soon, the Macintosh 128K was upgraded to a 512K (whoopee!). In fifth and sixth grades, I joined the TAG/TLC program in Hoffman School in Glenview. That was where my interest in computers was elevated. They used the new Apple][gs's and I had fun playing Oregon Trail all day long...The TAG/TLC program was mainly when I developed my fast typing skill - I reached my record of 136 WPM in sixth grade on the CommuniKeys typing program. By then, I had become a serious programmer in BASIC, and started my first full blown program, called "The Computation Game." By now, I have developed versions of this game on the Mac in C, Pascal, and BASIC; as well as on the PC in QBASIC and Borland C++ in DOS and WINDOWS; and in GNU C on a UNIX SunSparc - X11 Windows system.
When I was 10 or 11, I had always thought that Macs were the best computers in the world. I've always thought that Windows was a low level, stupid program. But then, I had my first contact with MS-DOS based PC's. Very soon, I learned DOS and WINDOWS, and began programming. The 486 Gateway System we got was superb - much faster than that old Mac 512K I used to use.
Old Computers
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