 | Walter Schmidt of Massapequa Park, Long Island, New York, is a Certified Public Accountant and specialist in Information Technology. "I used my first computer, an IBM 1130, in 1965. By 1967, I knew what
chad was, decades before it was fashionable. Brought a data-center to its knees in the early '70s - an assembly relative-reference jump done
wrong. Joined CompuServe's MicroNET in the late '70s and still have my
membership card. In the '80s I ran VisiCalc on an Atari 800, and got
computer-elbow from lugging a 30-pound portable. I met the Internet in the early '90s, and was asked to join ClubIE several years later." His PC: If it has enough memory and storage, an open USB port, and a cable-modem, I'm happy. Favorite computing site:The Microsoft Knowledge Base, and Google His own words:"Convergence...even before I knew its name, I wanted HAL. In the early
'70s, I spent $125 on a Melcor calculator - it had memory storage - what a
time saver. During the '80s I ran Soft Logic's Software Carousel - hard
drive multi-tasking - slow, but it worked. Today, we have the TV, the DVD,
our music, our pictures, our computers, and the need to run far too many
electronic devices to make them all work. Until, the Windows XP Media
Center Edition PC comes along - a first step to... Convergence!
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