With the entire family now suffering from the flu (it started with me on Thu), we decided to attack the storage room today. The storage room contains years worth of stuff and not just Anna and my life together. There is elementary, high-school, and university items that have been collected. Add to that everything Anna and I have collected over the last 18 years. In fairness, I am the pack rat. I keep things till I am sure they are no longer useful. Anna will toss things at a moments notice. Consequently, a good portion of the storage room is considered ‘my stuff’. Some of the stuff I kept made me realize how much older I am than I feel. I took pictures of some of the items of interest to me before tossing them.
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I installed and maintained Novell UnixWare and Netware for service provider while I was in school. I learned a lot and it was very applicable, leading edge at the time all 28.8 kbps dial-up.
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This was my first mobile phone. I purchased it from Bell and it was expensed by the service provider I was working for. I can’t get over the size and weight of it. It had an LED green screen. At the time it was cool. I tried to charge it and subsequently power it up, but it no longer functions.
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Foxpro was a database that I did a lot of programming with, first just on my own out of interest and then for work at the library.
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I actually did some work on OS/2. Not a lot but I recall this book being recommended as I was more familiar with Windows. As I recall it was not very helpful in the end.
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Pascal was the first language I taught myself after basic in elementary school. I used it quite extensively till I switched to C. Netscape Livewire was a platform that I had to develop in at one of my summer co-ops employments. Ecco was a contact management system used as a very simple CRM system by the ISP I worked for during school. I wrote some simple batch interfacing to it for the ISP. Impromtu was a reporting module used in another co-cop term by the company. I was responsible for the database server and associated applications, so I had to troubleshoot it at times.
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A bunch of other books I purchased and used at one time or another in my career. Check out the last book entitled Finding it on the Internet — does anyone remember gopher, archie, WAIS? I do and I used them. Not for long, but it still makes me feel old.
