I have always loved computers and that is how I make my living. Can't seem to get enough of them. I spend 90% of my entire work day buried in computers, so what do I do when I get home but spend even more time with them! That's fanaticism. I wrote my first FORTRAN III computer program in 1964, and have been dabbling in software, and hardware ever since. Having been around the field that long I have seen firsthand the tremendous changes that have occurred in computing. Can't wait to see what's going to happen next. I bought my first personal computer in 1978, a Radio Shack TRS80 Model 1, derisively nicknamed the "trash80". Regardless of that misnomer I learned a great deal from that machine. I then progressed through the Commodore series (the C64 followed by the C128), finally buying my first IBM PC clone in 1982. I currently use a 333 MHz Dell Dimension, with 128 MB RAM, DVD drive, a 21" Panasonic E110 monitor, monster 3D card, and all the normal bells and whistles. I have it networked to my old Quantex 100 MHz Pentium, so I can share the scanner which is attached to the Quantex. Can also play multi-player games. Multi-player flight simulators really take advantage of the speed of two networked PC's. No lag whatsoever, so frame rate is killer.

This is where I spend 80% of my time at home. It's either here or in the tv room watching the big screen. I have a 51" widescreen Pioneer projection box, a laserdisc and a DVD player, all running a top-end Yamaha receiver and a set of Infinity speakers, using dolby 5.1 digital decoding. Sounds better than the theater.