I bought my first computer, a Commodore 64 back in 1986. The picture on the left is not mine, I had the older browner and rounder model. Originally I bought it because there was sequencer software that allowed me to compose music. (Does anyone remember Dr T's Music Software?). I had also bought some C-64 magazines that had programs in them that you could type in and run, my first bit of computer programming, sort of. I graduated to an Atari 520, then a Atari 1024 (power without the price). I later moved on to a Commodore Amiga, which had a Bridgeboard PC emulator in it. I used this to take my first programming classes at the Community College. From there I went to a Packard Bell 386, then a Leading Edge 486, then a Gateway Pentium I and then Dell Pentium III. Now, after a 2 week debacle with the cows at Gateway, I have settled on a Dell Pentium 4 as my new baby. Along the way, I have added memory chips, hard drives, CD-ROM drives, processor upgrades, emulator boards, capture boards, SCSI cards, network cards and who knows what else. I have worked with a variety of operating systems, even a MAC OS once upon a time (an emulator on the Amiga). I have been on AOL, back when it first started, Compuserve and Prodigy as well as a number of BBS's (this was before the Internet kids). And I haven't composed a tune on the computer in over a decade. What a long strange trip its been, huh?

Claim to Fame

Once when I was a kid I met Barbara Walters at the Barnstable Airport, she was with Ethel Kennedy and my dad carried her bags to her car.

Hey, wanna see my photos of my trip to Toronto? If you answered yes, click over to my Toronto Trip Page