20 Aug
2004
20 Aug
'04
11:24 a.m.
I must agree totally. The only things school
contributed to my career path
was the TRS-80 Model 1's we were allowed to book time on at lunchtime and
Didn't even do that. I had a Model 1 long before the school had a
computer. I think I'd even hand-wired my own Z80 system before I used a
school computer. Somehow typing in BASIC programs was less interesting
than doing a bit of interfacing or writing machine code (both of which
were forbidden on the school machines!).
after school. [I never did find out if there was
actually a class that
used them.] I'd previously been doing electronics as a hobby, this shifted
me into computing (with an electronics bent - I was quite happy to build up
a ZX81 kit, etc) My skills ever since have been totally self-taught, and I
think they are better for it. (Just makes it harder to find a new job when
I can't show them pretty pieces of paper..)
Yeah, I have that problem too... Oh well...
-tony