![]() I've also hacked some real small hardware such as Telxon and Intermec handhelds and pocket PCs. The PDP-11 didn't last too long and I worked my way up to a Sinclair ZX-80 Spectrum followed by a Commodore 64, the entire IBM PC family (from the original 8088 processor up to Pentium III), Apple Macintosh, Sun SPARC 4 and 5, HP Apollo, Intel Paragon, SGI Irix and Indy stations, Unisys Sequent and who knows what else. The next thing you know, I was hooked for life. So I decided to see if I could reprogram it to do my next chapter as well. Suddenly, my dad asked me why I was working out all the problems by hand and showed me how to write a program to calculate simple interest in BASIC. Anyway, it was a hot afternoon and I was working on my math homework in his computer lab, since it was air-conditioned inside. My introduction to computers started off when I discovered the joys of programming my dad's PDP-11 computer at the age of 10 (or was it 11?). What is even more amazing is that all of the computers on this page are in working condition and I still use some of them on a regular basis. To tell you the truth, I have no idea why I have so many obsolete machines. Welcome to my Computer Museum! For some reason, I really like to collect computer hardware and the first question that many people who know me ask is, "Why?".
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