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Born between 2 sisters in 1952, I grew up on a potato farm. Going to school in a rural area in the mountains out of Melbourne, I then had to take an each way trip bus trip of 30 miles each way to go to secondary school. Fortunately the family moved to the city before I started Tertiary (college) education. Mind you, I dropped out of college and ....
I joined the Public Service and quickly made my way into the IT area. I was working in a Mainframe computer centre when there was an upgrade from 256 to 512Kbyte of main memory... and that was split into 10 partitions. The first PC I used was at the time we were putting Mini-computers into all our offices in dedicated computer rooms with false floors and specialist air-conditioning. Two floppies and no hard drive was quite usable as I used as a "Lotus 123" data base in my work. Within a year of my moving to another area in 1987, The mini computers had been replaced with PCs standing in a corner of the office.
I eventually retired in 1996 when they tried to make a manager out of me. I was always the technocrat and didn't adapt as well as I should. I now sit at home on my much more modern PC, playing bridge and solving puzzles. Other useful applications are quite welcome to use the capacity I have spare. |
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