"Really love your peaches"
Society's Board Questionnaire
1. Your name : Thomas G. Rutherford
2. Your preferred NG name : Tom Rutherford
3. Where you live : Burton, MI
4. Other places you have lived : Flint and Davisburg, MI. Also lived in and around the Dayton, OH area for a lot of years. Rockville, MD too early to remember. Born in Lee County, VA
5. Favorite place you've traveled to : Southwestern Virginia
6. Age : 45
7. Occupation(s) : Past & present? Computer bum. :-) Actually, have tried working, and couldn't do it gainfully. Too slow. Good, but slow. Have training for radio/TV repair, broadcast engineering, and I know something about computers
8. Family : Mother, Billie and dad, Morris. Also brother, Dan. All live in Pontiac, MI. Brother is married to Jeanny, and that have two kids, Staci and Zachary. Aunts, uncles, cousins in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennesee, Texas, and God knows where else. :-)
9. Interests : Computers (natch), ham radio, target shooting (handgun), music (jazz, rock, R&B, classical, New Age...etc.), reading (SF, suspense, techno-thrillers, etc.), bowling, shortwave listening.
10. Description of your puter : Homebrew P166, 48MB RAM, 6.4G and 1.28G hard drives, 1.08G hard drive not in use at the moment, 5.25" and 3.5" high-density floppies, 2X Mitsumi CD-ROM, PAS-16 sound card, Tseng Labs ET4000-based generic video card, PiXiE 15" monitor, HP DeskJet 500C printer, US Robotics Courier "V.Everything" modem. Can boot to DOS (with Win3.1), Linux, or OS/2, depending on which I want. Saving up my pennies to build a Windows-optimized box for Win98SE.
11. when did you first go on-line? If you mean on the Internet, was about '95, sort of. Connected via a terminal connection to various hosts. "Real" Internet, July of '99. If you mean when did I start using a modem, that was May of '86
12. What do you use your puter for? E-mail, USENET, the Web, word processing, household accounts, BBS'ing, that's about it.
13. Pets? Not yet. Want a cat or thirty, eventually.
14. Education/where? Graduated from Clarkston HS, Clarkston, MI. Associate of Applied Science, Electronics Technology at Mott Community College in Flint. Started on a B.S. in Computer Science at UofM-Flint, but didn't complete it.
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16. Who was the first person you met online..when/where/how? Gary Toomey, a.k.a. Admiral Electron. I called his BBS during the summer of '86, and he pulled me into chat.
17. Which character attribute do you consider to be the most important? Honesty
18. Ever been touched by greatness? There are just so many wonderful things/people in my life, I can't really pick out one.
19. E-mail address : rutherf@core.com
22. Birthday: May 1st, 1955
not that we're
counting or anything, but... .
(Since 07-26-00) :)