I started using computers in February of 1967, when I took a Saturday class for high school students at the Illinois Institute of Technology. I continued to work with them through college and graduate school. In 1977 I got my first “real” job as a programmer/analyst at what was then the First National Bank of Chicago. So began a career in Information Technology which ended with my retirement from the Hennepin County Information Technology Department in 2018. Even in retirement I spend a lot of time with computers, looking to improve my understanding of how they work and how to use them.

• Posts about Computers
• Posts about Linux
• Posts about Slackware Linux
• Posts about Microsoft Windows

Some partcular posts.

• Another Undead Computer Language
• The Lifetimes of Programming Languages
• Computing as it was. “Real Programmers use Fortran.”
• Computer Necromancer
• The extra hour
• Note to self. Do not ever, under any circumstances, use Microsoft Word as an HTML editor!