My first contact with computers came about during the summer of 1986. I was 21 years old living in Boston with my uncle who worked for Digital Equipment Corp.

In the room I was occupying was a bed and a desk with a DEC PC on it. I mostly ignored it however one day my curiosity got the best of me and I turned it on. It didn't do very much; the screen was black with green flashing text. I wasn't real impressed so I shut it off and didn't touch it again.

It must have left an impression on me though. I moved back to Portland Oregon later that year and soon decided to buy my own computer. It was pathetic by today's standards. It had a black screen with amber (orange) text, a keyboard, an 8086 CPU, a 5-1/4" floppy disk drive, DOS 3.2 and GW Basic. No mouse, no modem, no Windows, not even a hard drive.

After many struggles I learned to bond with the computer and together we wrote all sorts of cool little programs. Some of my favorite programming involved transcribing guitar music into GW Basic code. I dazzled my friends and family with computer generated beeps, chirping out Van Halen's Eruption and other cool guitar songs.

Well 20 years have gone by now, things have certainly changed since then. I've seen many versions of Windows and Microsoft's BASIC programming language. I can't tell you the number of computers I've touched since that first one, but it's been a lot.

Through those years I've dealt with a lot of situations and solved a lot of problems. I've used my skills in many environments and continue to rely on them with every challenge I face.

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