About

I consider myself to be a fairly knowledgeable person on new technologies after teaching myself in many different operating systems, scripting and programming languages and many specialized software. This space serves as my blog. While it doesn’t revolve around any specific topic, it will be a gathering of random tidbits that interests me.

Let me tell you a little bit about myself.

The 80s

My very first dabble with an electronics device was with a Famicom, better known in North America as Nintendo Entertainment System. My grandmother bought it for my cousins and I. She kept it at her house and allowed us to play it whenever we visited. My early childhood experiences with video games and electronics in general pretty much starts in the 80s.

The 90s

My elementary school had a whole bunch of Macintosh computers in the lab. I sneaked into the room as often as possible to play Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Once again video games attracted my attention to the world of computers. In the early 90s my parents decided that it was time we had a family PC, so they bought an used Intel 80486DX4. It was pretty reasonably configured for that era. The CPU clocked in at 100 MHz and had 8 MB of RAM, an 800 MB hard drive. We got the monitor for $200, a 14″ CRT that outputs a resolution of 640×480.

Almost overnight, Microsoft released Windows 95 and it was hailed to be the most advanced operating system yet. I waited a long time before we upgraded to it because my parents didn’t feel like paying the price. In fact we almost missed out on the Windows 95 lifecycle. Most of my serious gaming started around this period. The PC was a revolutionary device that somehow hooked all of my attention. I played a lot of Duke Nukem 3D, Wolfenstein, Doom (although I only played the shareware), passing them multiple times. Countless hours were spent to create custom boot disks with different start up configurations because memory was scarce.

Eventually we did make the upgrade to new hardware and software. My parents bought a Compaq Presario for my birthday in 1997. It was my first computer bought new and bought for me. I later bought a Voodoo Banshee with my allowance and so began the 3D accelerated gaming era of the late 90s.

Internet was just becoming affordable in the late 90s, I initially started with a 33.6 kbit/s modem and went online with Hyper Terminal. Eventually we got a proper dial-up connection and I started using a browser. The Presario came with a 17″ Compaq branded CRT, Windows 95, then later we upgraded to Windows 98, Windows Millennium, and eventually Windows 2000. That is how long we kept this Compaq, all the way to the Windows 2000 launch. Online gaming started to catch on and exploded in popularity while I spent weeks at a time in deathmatch and capture the flag servers.

Y2K

In early 2000s I built my first desktop PC. At first I was reluctant but I’ve tinkered with some electronics so I thought what the heck, let’s give it a go. It was a cheap ATX enclosure powered by an Intel Celeron 500 MHz, 256 MB of RAM which I later upgraded to 512 MB, and a 20 GB hard drive. I also kept the Voodoo Banshee but later upgraded to a GeForce 256MX. Internet by now had standardized the 56 kbps rating, however I was lucky and quickly upgraded to a 10BASE-T network card and had high speed broadband.

Today

After building countless more computers I have finally had enough of hardware incompatibilities. Somehow form took over in priorities over function and I bought a MacBook Pro. I now carry an iPhone around, and a Nikon D40 with various lenses when I role-play photographer.