History

The TV Repair Man

February 22, 2011

I credit a friend of the family, a TV repair man by trade, for setting in motion the sequence of events that would lead to my eventual career and subsequent success. All this while I was somewhere between 9 and 16 years old. Jim and his wife Tina were friends of my parents – Tina [...]

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Relic

August 9, 2007

Cleaning out a desk drawer I stumbled onto one of these:

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A (Pre) Microsoft Story

August 20, 2005

Back in the days BM (Before Microsoft), I worked for a small company in Seattle called International Entry Systems, Inc, or IESI. They manufactured Z-80 based data entry terminals that were, basically, a single line display, a keyboard and a data cassette recorder. All software was loaded from tape. (This was 1980, after all.) One [...]

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