I might as well jump on while everyone else does...
I'm not too new, not too old to this list, starting in October/November.
I'm 12 years old, and therefore, as far as I can tell, the youngest person
in this list. (Although, I could, of course be wrong) I'm the sond of an
American diplomat, and have lived in Bahrain for nearly 3 1/2 years. This
July, I'm moving to Guyana, after going back to Witicha, Kansas and DC.
As the age implies, I probably haven't been into computers too long. My
main computer actually is my first, it WAS a Compaq Presario CDS 633, with a
486SX 33MHz processor, 4MB of RAM (immeidately upgraded to 12MB), and, after
upgrading, now it's a 486DX/2 66, 28MB RAM, 2.1GB HDD, but still with the
same video, sound and controller cards as before. It's role is getting
slowly replaced with my new Cyrix 200 that I built in December. (The 31st,
just before Midnight).
Back in 1994, when I got my first computer, I was always interested in
programming. I started with QBasic, and still use BASIC to do most work.
Just today I've made my first (partially useable) C++ program.
Let's see: I'm unemployed (except always bored as a 7th grade student),
am not married (as you could guess, living in the Mid East's getting to me),
have no children and do not live in New York. But, in my spare time I work
with my friend Zack Boyd (we met on the Internet) on the web page, The
Review Guide (at
http://members.theglobe.com/ReviewGuide/index.html) We
hope to be moving soon to a .com address, just after we get reviews up, etc.
It's basically for fun, to try new products, and, for me, mostly to get
credibility for college, etc. (yes, I'm already possed with it, and would
like info that anyone has on this subject, right now, I'll do almost
anything....)
I started collecting with a PC XT, and still have it, it's still waiting
for a controller and HDD. ;-)
Lets see... I'm starting an online community, and am going to be asking
in the next few days for people interested. I'm really unsatified with the
learning going on in school, (you'll understand with the online community
post) , and love learning, like classical music up through lots of different
stuff that I don't know what category it goes under... use Windows, am
getting familiar with Linux... and, that's it.
Bye,
Tim D. Hotze
Received on Mon Mar 02 1998 - 10:42:16 GMT