|
Dave Farquhar
St. Louis, Missouri
I'm a 1997 graduate of the famous (and overrated--oops, did I say that?) School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. My first job was as a systems analyst/network administrator--I never could decide whether I liked computers or words better--as is my current job. I've been combining the two interests for years, with my first publication for money being in the November 1991 Gazette edition of the late, great Compute magazine at age 16. My current project is a book on Windows 9x performance tuning for O'Reilly and Associates. (published in 2000)
The first computers I ever used were TRS-80 Model IVs (I think) and Commodore VIC-20s in 1981. My family joined the digital revolution in 1984 with the purchase of a Commodore 64. I learned to program it in Commodore BASIC and 6502 assembly language, stepped up a couple of years later to the bigger, faster C-128, and used that as my primary computer until 1991. My first computer with a hard drive was an Amiga 2000, which I grew to love. I eventually got a summer job selling PCs at a consumer electronics store, where I used my employee discount to get a 66 MHz 486. I didn't like Windows 3.1, so I immersed myself in OS/2 3.0 and later 4.0, which I continued to run as my primary OS until late 1996.
My other interests include religion, music, politics, and baseball (the order tends to vary with the time of day).
|
|
