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Besides the fact that I make my living working with computers, I've got the distinct feeling that I relate better to computers than I do with people. I dream of having a house with a central computer system that responds to voice commands. I can imagine walking into the house, saying "Lights, please" and having this really masculine sounding computer say "Welcome home, Bob. You have 3 voice messages, 2 faxes and 23 email messages waiting. Would you like to hear them now?". Of course, that may not be too far away.

Most of my computer expertise is self-taught. The only actual classes I've been to are a few software classes at CompUSA. One exception - I spent about 12 weeks in San Jose a couple of years ago getting certified to install, maintain and program the voicemail system that my company uses. Despite all of that, I am a member of the Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Sitebuilder Network and the HTML Writers Guild. I am also Manager of Information Systems at the company I work for (the one that actually pays me).

Here is a partial list of the software that I use on a regular basis. If you notice that there is a lot of Microsoft there, I warned you earlier that I have been assimilated!

• MS Foxpro 2.6 for DOS
• MS Foxpro 2.6 for Windows
• MS Foxpro 2.6 for Unix
• MS Visual Foxpro 3.0 Professional Edition
• MS Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
• MS Visual Basic 5.0 Control Creation Edition
• MS Visual C++ 5.0 Profesional Edition (Subscription)
• MS Win32 SDK
• MS ActiveX SDK/InternetSDK (or whatever they are calling it this week)
• MS Windows 95
• MS Office 95 Standard Edition
• MS Internet Explorer 4.0 Platform Preview 2
• MS Outlook Express (Internet Mail and News)
• MS Netmeeting
• Netscape 3.0 Gold
• Netscape Communicator 4.02
• HomeSite 2.5
• WS_FTP95
• PaintShop Pro 4.12
• Quicken
• QuickBooks
• WordPerfect 6.1
• TextPad (great shareware text editor)
• Daytimer Organizer for Windows 95
• Aldus Pagemaker 5.0
• Aldus Photostyler
• Wincode 2.7
• American Heritage Dictionary for Windows 3.0
• Century Term 7.0 for Windows

Hardware - Here's a quick list of the equipment in my house right now:

• My "baby" - this is my Windows machine
  
  • Pentium 166, 512K cache
  • 32 MB Memory
  • Adaptec 2880 Ultra/UltraWide SCSI-2 Controller
  • Diamond Stealth64 SVGA card w/ 2 MB VRAM
  • Dual Floppy Drives
  • 4X SCSI CD-Rom Drive
  • Maxtor 2.0 gigabyte dard drive
  • Western Digital 1.2 gigabyte dard drive
  • Colorado Jumbo 250 Tape Drive
  • Zoom 28.8 External FaxModem
  • Dialogic Proline/2V Voice card
  • HP ScanJet 4P SCSI Scanner
  • HP Laserjet 5P printer
  • Epson StylusColor printer
  • SoundBlaster 16 Plug'n'Play Sound Card
  • Labtec Stereo Speakers
  • AMD PCNet 16 bit PCI Network card
  • Iomega ZIP Drive
• Chris' Computer (used to be my Unix machine)
  
  • Pentium 133, 512K cache
  • 32 MB Memory
  • Adaptec 2880 Ultra/UltraWide SCSI-2 Controller
  • Western Digital 512K SVGA Card
  • 3.5" Floppy Drive
  • 4X SCSI CD-Rom Drive
  • Western Digital 1.2 gigabyte dard drive
  • Zoom 28.8 External FaxModem
  • AMD PCNet 16 bit PCI Network card
  • "Loop" SVGA Monitor

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