forkhoister
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Hey Guys, I'm Dennis and I apologize in advance for my verbosity.
I suppose being in my mid-late 20s puts me in the newbie categorie around here but computers (mainly due to exposure through my techie dad) have accompanied me my whole life.
He graciously let me use his Thinkpad 700C (I still own) running DOS back in the day which is when I discovered my love for programming, particularlyl in Basic.
Inevitably, with modern high school life I fell somewhat out of touch with older hardware and just ran with whatever contemporary Windows OS was available on whatever desktop I've had at hand, with the occasional experiments in C++ (past aspirations in game development and whatnot hahaha).
Many, many years later, having now found myself in a webdev Backend Engineering position working within Unix environments I have finally found the peace and time to rediscover my interest in hardware architecture, spending my time learning more about electrical engineering and recently having finished building a simple 16-bit x86 breadboard "computer" from scratch. And whilst far from retro, I've come to fall in love with my TP T480 having tinkered with it myself to very small degrees (panel replacement etc.) Also trying to learn C for the purpose of compiler understanding/writing. Basically, I want to go from those high-level abstractions I use at work on a daily basis more and more low-level in my freetime because it's just plain fascinating how things used to be/and still often are engineered and work "under the hood".
So, to sum things up, I've discovered this forum through another blog during my research into the GRiDCASE laptop series of the 80s/90s of which I'm now in the active process of acquiring one and I hope to absorb as much knowledge here about old hardware as possible. (First time reading about Twister/Bubble Memory blew my damn mind hahah.)
Aside from my subpar self-taught tech know-how, I'm also an avid Kaiju movie fan, I like to go fishing, I actively take Piano classes. and I'm also interested in Marine Biology and Geology.
Kind regards and thanks for having me,
Dennis
I suppose being in my mid-late 20s puts me in the newbie categorie around here but computers (mainly due to exposure through my techie dad) have accompanied me my whole life.
He graciously let me use his Thinkpad 700C (I still own) running DOS back in the day which is when I discovered my love for programming, particularlyl in Basic.
Inevitably, with modern high school life I fell somewhat out of touch with older hardware and just ran with whatever contemporary Windows OS was available on whatever desktop I've had at hand, with the occasional experiments in C++ (past aspirations in game development and whatnot hahaha).
Many, many years later, having now found myself in a webdev Backend Engineering position working within Unix environments I have finally found the peace and time to rediscover my interest in hardware architecture, spending my time learning more about electrical engineering and recently having finished building a simple 16-bit x86 breadboard "computer" from scratch. And whilst far from retro, I've come to fall in love with my TP T480 having tinkered with it myself to very small degrees (panel replacement etc.) Also trying to learn C for the purpose of compiler understanding/writing. Basically, I want to go from those high-level abstractions I use at work on a daily basis more and more low-level in my freetime because it's just plain fascinating how things used to be/and still often are engineered and work "under the hood".
So, to sum things up, I've discovered this forum through another blog during my research into the GRiDCASE laptop series of the 80s/90s of which I'm now in the active process of acquiring one and I hope to absorb as much knowledge here about old hardware as possible. (First time reading about Twister/Bubble Memory blew my damn mind hahah.)
Aside from my subpar self-taught tech know-how, I'm also an avid Kaiju movie fan, I like to go fishing, I actively take Piano classes. and I'm also interested in Marine Biology and Geology.
Kind regards and thanks for having me,
Dennis