From: Daintrees <p.d...@pa...> - 2004-08-23 06:51:13
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I had an Acorn Electron PC - I was 18 I think - a cut down BBC = computer, then a few years later a Sinclar QL - I still have 2 of = these!! Although I have read quite a bit I have no formal training in = computers bar one course at university. I played with assembly language = for the Motorola 68008 that was in the QL and played with C - read = Kernan and Ritchie but never got into it - it was too hard! Had a Pascal = compiler for the QL too. Only played with little things though. Wrote my first General ledger on the QL with SuperBasic in my 20s. The I got into MS Access and wrote quite a few MS Access databases = for companies I worked for, finally I wrote a complete accounting system = upon which webERP is based on the best bits of. http://www.dux.co.nz/LogicWorks/homepage.htm I then converted this to use MS SQL with logic in stored procedures = with full MRP. Had a reasonable grounding in SQL Server 6.5 Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL caught my attention. Like you Rom, I enjoy the logic puzzles presented by programming and = creating something useful from nothing. Phil =20 I started in the computers at the age of 11, when I got my first = commodore and a MSX. then I went to the Amiga and then at the same time = to PCs. I started programming basic and logo in the MSX. I got my first = job programming Borland C developing PDA like devices to the police of = my country (I was 17 in that time). Then I become passionate with = Borland C and DOS. Borland C is extremely powerful and I still recompile = some of my old stuff just for fun using Dos Box and FreeDOS some times. = I am no computer genius but I can make it work :D and the best of all: I = have fun doing it. As it is for me know a lot of fun doing this project = with you guys. =20 Best Regards, =20 Rom Pereira |