I may be a retired programmer,but I’m still writing programs. I wrote my first program for an IBM 650,a small (for that time) computer with tubes not transistors. It had a 4,000 ten digit word memory. Since then,most of my programming has been on small systems.
My interests include:
- Books–I have ~10,000 books in my house. Most of them are science fiction,fantasy or young adult books. A lot of very good fantasy has been published as young adult fiction. Can you say “Harry Potter”?
- Trains–The railroad runs through the middle of my house out into the garden in back. More on that at the Garden Railroad Builders’Logs (RM&E)
- Garden–I got a Duchess du Brabant rose bush some years ago. It has been flattened by a number of hurricanes and was under the tent when I had the house tented for termites. It’s still going strong. That inspired me to add a number of miniature roses to the garden for my railroad.
- Photography–Mostly I record events. Once in a long while,I get something worth putting up on a wall. My cameras include:
- Nikon D80
- Canon SD-1000
- Sony Cybershot DSC-HX5V
- Leica IIIb (It’s as old as I am)
- A number of other old ones I haven’t wanted to part with.
- Computers–Naturally. I currently have nine including:
- IPCop firewall between me and the internet
- server
- web server–soon to be phased out
- work station
- Mythbuntu machine–I set it up and haven’t used it much
- Bedroom machine–only used when I’m sick which isn’t often
- Guest machine
- Test machine
- ASUS eeepc 1000HE netbook that goes everywhere with me