Hello from Minnesota (U.S.A.)
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 5:15 pm
Hello, my name is Mark Robin. I was born in the U.S.A.
My grandparents were French, Swedish and Czech
My first computer was a Vic20 from Commodore
I learned Basic and Assembly code programming on a Commodore 64 (6502 processor)
I wrote games for Commodore (well one game they bought and paid commissions on)
Next computer was a radio shack TRS80 Model II with a 500k Floppy drive.
Basic language and 32 K of memory.
This is the computer I initially wrote a Quoting program for a business my dad and my brother started.
A friend helped me write the code. Then he locked the computer and demanded 400 bucks to unlock it.
Was not a friend after all....
Next computer was the first IBM XT home computer with a 360k floppy drive and a 4mHZ processor.
I learned DBASE programming and converted the basic quote program from the previous computer.
Clipper came along and I started compiling the programs I wrote.
Quoting, Job tickets, scheduling, inventory, packing slips, and billing programs back in the 90's
All of the original code we still use today with a Novell file server.
About 10 years ago I got my first parallax basic Stamp Then moved on to the Atmel line of processors.
I bought a Bridgeport mill, designed and built my own C&C circuit board router and then converted an old XLO mil
to a full C&C using mach3 mill so I can mill metal parts.
I learned C now for programming the micro controllers.
Business has been good through the years and I have been slacking on paying attention to the normal day to day running of it as the employees have been with us for over 20 years.
I am now at the point where the new Windows 7 machines don't much like to talk to the old Novell systems.
I made a mistake in my code giving the Job Number field just 4 digits, we have gone past 9999
So I am here today porting the programs and updating them to make use of the data they collect to help increase profits in the company.
I also have three kids, ages 22, 27, and 28. One is a school teacher, one works as a wedding planner in a big hotel, the last one is a musician.
I really still have a good grasp of the clipper language, the OOP coding I still shy away from, Java is hard for me as well as C++.
That's where I came from and I am very happy to find such a good group to move on into the 21st century, with EPOCH set to 2000 perhaps all of our jobs
won't be overdue when we enter them....
My grandparents were French, Swedish and Czech
My first computer was a Vic20 from Commodore
I learned Basic and Assembly code programming on a Commodore 64 (6502 processor)
I wrote games for Commodore (well one game they bought and paid commissions on)
Next computer was a radio shack TRS80 Model II with a 500k Floppy drive.
Basic language and 32 K of memory.
This is the computer I initially wrote a Quoting program for a business my dad and my brother started.
A friend helped me write the code. Then he locked the computer and demanded 400 bucks to unlock it.
Was not a friend after all....
Next computer was the first IBM XT home computer with a 360k floppy drive and a 4mHZ processor.
I learned DBASE programming and converted the basic quote program from the previous computer.
Clipper came along and I started compiling the programs I wrote.
Quoting, Job tickets, scheduling, inventory, packing slips, and billing programs back in the 90's
All of the original code we still use today with a Novell file server.
About 10 years ago I got my first parallax basic Stamp Then moved on to the Atmel line of processors.
I bought a Bridgeport mill, designed and built my own C&C circuit board router and then converted an old XLO mil
to a full C&C using mach3 mill so I can mill metal parts.
I learned C now for programming the micro controllers.
Business has been good through the years and I have been slacking on paying attention to the normal day to day running of it as the employees have been with us for over 20 years.
I am now at the point where the new Windows 7 machines don't much like to talk to the old Novell systems.
I made a mistake in my code giving the Job Number field just 4 digits, we have gone past 9999
So I am here today porting the programs and updating them to make use of the data they collect to help increase profits in the company.
I also have three kids, ages 22, 27, and 28. One is a school teacher, one works as a wedding planner in a big hotel, the last one is a musician.
I really still have a good grasp of the clipper language, the OOP coding I still shy away from, Java is hard for me as well as C++.
That's where I came from and I am very happy to find such a good group to move on into the 21st century, with EPOCH set to 2000 perhaps all of our jobs
won't be overdue when we enter them....