Profile: Richard Cox

Personal background
Born in San Diego, CA 5/10/42. Started out to be a chemist at Scripps Institute while in high school (1958) but got caught up in computers in 1962 when Scripps took delivery of CDC-1604. I've worked with computers ever since and own several types ([5]Pentium's, [3]HP-9000's, [1]CPM-based), using them for numerical analysis, robotics, web surfing, data acquisition, games and homeschooling. Fluent in FORTRAN, C, LabVIEW, ColdFusion and Pascal. Left Scripps and moved to Silicon Valley in '72; married in '76; ten kids. Hobbies: backpacking, astronomy, math, web applications. Installed a T2 LAN at the house this year and all our machines are online 24 hours.


COMPUTER SYSTEM
Pentium 4 3GHz w/2G PC3200 RAM Abit IC7 MOBO, (4) 300G Maxtor SATA drives, NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 128 video, IBM 17" 6327 monitor, SONY DVDRW/CDRW, Sony 52x DVD/CDR.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I have my doubts that intelligent life exists anywhere in the Universe (sometimes I wonder about earth itself). Never-the-less, it's fun to speculate on the possibilities and that's why I offer my computer(s) to help. I think I'm more interested in the mechanics of looking itself rather than finding someone.
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