Profile: Frank Kimmel

Personal background
My activation date was on May '69 as a FlipFlop. The first upgrade happend in '79 into a pong Game. In '81 i was upgraded into the Philips-videopac gameconsole wich was contverted in '82 into the Atari game console where I encounted ET for the first time (space invaders). I started to upgrade again and became a TI-99 wich was nice but due to the lack of memory an the extensive use of it, extended basic etc., I upgraded from 16Kb to 64Kb this led to my next stage in evolution.., the C64, happend in '84. I felt so good in this stage that the next Major upgrade did not happen until '87 when I changed into an Amiga 1000, 500 and 3000 in respectfully '87,'90, and '94 when the upgrade possibilities ceased to exist I downgraded to a 286 PC in '95. Being a PC, the years in wich upgrades happend changed into months so I upgraded into numerous stages; 386, 586 I, 586II, 586III and finally in February 2002 into a P4 1.8 GHz. On August 2004 my physique changed again into a P4 3Ghz wich combined with a new GPU (NV40) and 800Mhz FSB memory let to a 100% performance increase. Were wil it end ?
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Eventually we will discover something .... But the MAJOR thing is that we discover and benefit from the small innovations and discoveries wich are made along side the major projects, because if you don't search you wil not innovate or discover so there will be no progress in whatever area, If you don't evolve you get exstinct.

To the guys who want to bring rocksamples from Mars to Earth, please don't make the same mistakes as the guys in the movie THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN !

I prefer the "STAR TREK" view of the future but if we don't watch out
we could end in a more darker future like the one described in
"BLADE RUNNER".
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