Being I am mostly retired these days has given me a lot of time to think back about my early days in the computer and tech industry.
My first real machine was an Osborne portable given to me by a friend who was an early computer tech and showed me how CPM worked and gave me a few floppies and I played around with it for a short while and gave me an early lesson into keyboard commands and such.
Then came MS Dos and I had many early machines including Kaypro, IBM and many of which I built myself. Back then it was all manual setup and required basic understanding of software and hardware and was a lot of fun.
Then came my introduction in the the Apple word. My friend Sam who has since passed showed me the way of Apple back then on his old 2 series machines.
He owned a business had the resources to upgrade and graduated into the McIntosh line, then the G series and eventually the intel based iMacs.
I really liked the early Apple GUI and was even given a Lisa by a longtime friend and I was hooked. I still had to use DOS and Windows based PC’s because the majority of the business world I worked in was using them.
In 2008 our engineering company decided to take the plunge and switch over from PC’s to Macs and we never looked back. The networking ability was far superior and once we adapted to Mac OS, we where hooked.
As far as phones, back in the day everyone carried a BlackBerry and BBM was the primary messaging app used by us and our corporate clients.
Even when the original iPhone 2G came out, which we quickly bought 4 of them. We where still using our BlackBerries because that’s what our customers required.
When things where transitioning from BlackBerry to IOS and Android, we jumped on the Apple wagon and never looked back. I still carried a BlackBerry and an iPhone because I will always have a loyalty to the BlackBerry brand.
It was fun back then and I learned a lot and met some interesting and very smart people along the way. I have always carried the same work ethic, that I am no smarter then the people I work with.
Just thought I would share some of my early days in these difficult times we are living and hopefully some of the folks out there will do the same.
My first real machine was an Osborne portable given to me by a friend who was an early computer tech and showed me how CPM worked and gave me a few floppies and I played around with it for a short while and gave me an early lesson into keyboard commands and such.
Then came MS Dos and I had many early machines including Kaypro, IBM and many of which I built myself. Back then it was all manual setup and required basic understanding of software and hardware and was a lot of fun.
Then came my introduction in the the Apple word. My friend Sam who has since passed showed me the way of Apple back then on his old 2 series machines.
He owned a business had the resources to upgrade and graduated into the McIntosh line, then the G series and eventually the intel based iMacs.
I really liked the early Apple GUI and was even given a Lisa by a longtime friend and I was hooked. I still had to use DOS and Windows based PC’s because the majority of the business world I worked in was using them.
In 2008 our engineering company decided to take the plunge and switch over from PC’s to Macs and we never looked back. The networking ability was far superior and once we adapted to Mac OS, we where hooked.
As far as phones, back in the day everyone carried a BlackBerry and BBM was the primary messaging app used by us and our corporate clients.
Even when the original iPhone 2G came out, which we quickly bought 4 of them. We where still using our BlackBerries because that’s what our customers required.
When things where transitioning from BlackBerry to IOS and Android, we jumped on the Apple wagon and never looked back. I still carried a BlackBerry and an iPhone because I will always have a loyalty to the BlackBerry brand.
It was fun back then and I learned a lot and met some interesting and very smart people along the way. I have always carried the same work ethic, that I am no smarter then the people I work with.
Just thought I would share some of my early days in these difficult times we are living and hopefully some of the folks out there will do the same.