After hurricane Maria hit and knocked my garage’s roof on top of my car (only a dent on the car’s roof is the extent of the damage from one of the beams) and left me without electricity I was really down in the dumps. Although I fared better than a lot of my neighbors whose tin roofs were stripped from their houses, it is still tough to have one’s life come to an abrupt halt. And I still have no …
Category: Technology
Continuing with the theme of my last post, I will now give my account of my adventures with my Atari 130XE 8-bit computer. The Atari 8-bit was the first computer I owned. My mother bought it for me in 1984. This computer came equipped with 128-Kbytes of memory (which was 64-Kbytes more than the norm at the time), built-in Atari BASIC, a cartridge slot, and an expansion slot. By the time Norton Utilities 7 came out for the IBM PC …
I was looking over my resume today—which I haven’t kept up-to-date. When I glanced over the part where I wrote about my adventures as a one man Internet Services Provider, I get a sense of wow come over me. I would never even bother with doing something like this today. Things have changed so much. You see, I physically ran everything from my apartment in Philadelphia. There were no third parties involved (except my upstream provider). At least, I can …