Today I met the new computer science curriculum specialist that was hired by my college.  This gent’s resume include a stint as an Apple developer.  When I met him I made mention of how I thought Apple software developers were long lost in the bit record of computer history.  His response was that he was now a Linux guy and that it had been about 10 years since he had written any Mac software.  I pointed out that the last Apple software I wrote was back in 1984, long before Apples became Macs.

This got me thinking back through my history with computers.  I think back to my first internet access which was circa 1992 and consisted of dialing up the local university and logging into their AIX system.  In those days the WWW was just getting started and one browsed webpages using Lynx, a text only web browser.

All this thinking made me somewhat nostalgic.  So much so that I popped in ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley’ .  The one memorable part of this movie was how much of dumbass Steve Ballmer is protrayed as.  He seems to have more interested in Playboy and partying than anything else.  The scary thing is that now he is the big dog of Microsoft since Bill Gates stepped down last week.

Now that I think back, Bill Gates really started making his money about 1980.  In those days I was learning BASIC on a TRS-80 Model II.  If only I had been the one with $50,000 and Bill had been in 9th grade at Washington Junior High in Ottumwa, IA.