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I was born the son of a chemical engineer with an amature radio license. I grew up around electronics, fixing, building and tweaking and attending hamfests, until the computer came along. Our first was an Ohio Scientific with 12K of static RAM, wired to the composite input of a JC Penney 12 inch B/W set, program and data storage were a cassette recorder. I've been a programmer ever since.

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Trapezium 6 , Monday November 05 2007, @08:35PM (0 comments)

[Here's a 2nd try, as the first attempt evidently went to bit heaven.]

Saturnday night I went out with other Santa Cruz Astronomy Club members to the Bon ...

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