Hevle.com - Computers

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computers

I’ve probably worked on a computer almost every day since 1989, possibly earlier. I’ve had a laptop computer for work since 1993, and I know that I haven’t gone more than a week since then without checking my email.  I’m not a junkie, but everything I do nowadays involves a computer.

 

programming

I remember working on computers in 1979-80 in high school, we had a TSR-80 and an Apple IIe.  I wrote several programs in Basic for our Computer Math course.  I wrote programs in college in various forms of Basic, Fortran, C and C++.  I wrote some code in Lisp that we actually sold to a customer, as an interface to AutoCad.  I’ve gotten a little behind the cutting edge, as you may have speculated, since I’m writing this page in Microsoft Word.  I can do most of the HTML stuff in notepad, but the graphical layout is difficult for me to do, and I’m pretty accustomed to Word for formatting stuff in the office.  I guess you really don’t have to be that fancy, one of the sharpest programmers I’ve every known uses a pretty basic format for his website, but one of my goals in designing a website was to make it look good without copying someone else’s graphic design.

 

I am an old DOS guy, I still can tell you the difference between an internal and external DOS command.  I finally stopped shelling to DOS for file management a couple of years ago, and I update this site with the command line FTP program.  I have most of the keyboard shortcuts memorized, and have several set up for different programs (e.g. MS Money is Ctrl-Shift-$)

 

hardware

I have a Compaq Evo N-600C, and I like the Compaqs (HP’s?) that I’ve had.  El Paso is buying IBM ThinkPads now, and I’ve never had a ThinkPad, so I’m excited.  Every other company I’ve ever worked for has been too cheap to buy from Big Blue.  I’ve also owned Toshibas (great, very ergonomic), WinPads (not very great), Dells and Gateways (nothing special).

 

At home I have a Compaq too, because a couple of years ago, El Paso bought every one of their employees a free computer.  Hard to beat the deal, and the Gateway I had was old (I bought it when I went back to school in 1991).

 

Last updated 4/5/05

 

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