I may be a retired programmer, but I’m still writing programs. I wrote my first program in 1979 for an IBM 650, a small (for that time) computer with tubes not transistors. It had a 4,000 ten digit word memory. Since then, most of my programming has been on small systems.
My interests include:
- Books–I have ~10,000 books in my house. Most of them are science fiction, fantasy or young adult books. A lot of very good fantasy has been published as young adult fiction. Can you say “Harry Potter”? Nearly all cataloged with Koha an integrated library system.
- Garden–I got a Duchess du Brabant rose bush some years ago. It has been flattened by a number of hurricanes and was under the tent when I had the house tented for termites. It’s still going strong. That inspired me to add a number of miniature roses to the garden for my railroad. None of which survived.
- 3d Printing–I’ve used my 3d-printers to print stuff for my model railroad, 3d-printer accessories, key chain tags for various events, pipe stems, business cards and whatever I can find an excuse for.
- Photography–Mostly I record events. Once in a long while, I get something worth putting up on a wall. My cameras include:
- Nikon D80
- Canon SD-1000
- Sony Cybershot DSC-HX5V
- Leica IIIb (It’s as old as I am)
- “Baby” Speed Graphic (Remember the old press cameras from the 40’s?)
- A number of other old ones I haven’t wanted to part with.
- Of course my android phone. It has an app which shows the strength of all the wifi stations nearby. I can’t do that on an iPhone. I tried for a couple of weeks, but had to give it up.
- Computers–Naturally. I currently have a bunch including:
- IPFire firewall between me and the internet
- server which stores files and runs Koha, to keep track of all those books
- Backup server
- Work station
- Guest machine
- A windoze machine needed to run 3D printing slicers which haven’t been updated to Linux.
- Some tablets.
- Some raspberry pi boxes for connecting to my 3d printers.
- Vehicles
- 2012 Hyundai Sonata
- 1950 Studebaker ½ ton pickup truck
- 1954 Studebaker Champion 4 door sedan.