On Aug 30, 2017, at 4:54 PM, Eric Rangell via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

Hello all, My name is Eric Rangell and I live in Downingtown, PA. My parents live in Lakewood NJ so I am looking forward to visiting the museum in Wall in November. My first computer was an Apple //e when I was 13 years old in 1983. I learned programming in Basic, Pascal, and assembly language in my teens, which led to a degree in Information Systems and a job on Wall St, where I worked with COBOL, helped get the company through Y2K, then branched into Client/Server: Powerbuilder/Sybase, Java, C, C# .NET/SQL Server, HTML/JS. After that job I did consulting for a university where I built a class for remedial music theory in Java, Php, Mysql, and Unix. My current position is a solution architect in the pharma industry where I try to keep up with Azure and VSTS while coordinating testing and FDA validation of systems. So retrocomputing is a hobby that helps ground me in something familiar. I am revisiting a MIDI system I developed for myself on the Apple //e and learning about efforts by archive.org to preserve floppy disk images. I have recently become interested in the ideas of Ted Nelson - Xanadu and Zigzag. When I was recently forced to dive into Javascript it was Doug Crockford's video series that helped me explore it. I am impressed with how people got things done under the constraints of old hardware, and can appreciate the unique talents that this community has. Thanks, Eric

Welcome! I live just down the road from Lakewood in Brick. When you're out here in November drop a line, perhaps we can meet up at infoage. Tony

On 8/30/2017 4:54 PM, Eric Rangell via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

Hello all, My name is Eric Rangell and I live in Downingtown, PA. My parents live in Lakewood NJ so I am looking forward to visiting the museum in Wall in November. My first computer was an Apple //e when I was 13 years old in 1983. I learned programming in Basic, Pascal, and assembly language in my teens, which led to a degree in Information Systems and a job on Wall St, where I worked with COBOL, helped get the company through Y2K, then branched into Client/Server: Powerbuilder/Sybase, Java, C, C# .NET/SQL Server, HTML/JS. After that job I did consulting for a university where I built a class for remedial music theory in Java, Php, Mysql, and Unix. My current position is a solution architect in the pharma industry where I try to keep up with Azure and VSTS while coordinating testing and FDA validation of systems. So retrocomputing is a hobby that helps ground me in something familiar. I am revisiting a MIDI system I developed for myself on the Apple //e and learning about efforts by archive.org to preserve floppy disk images. I have recently become interested in the ideas of Ted Nelson - Xanadu and Zigzag. When I was recently forced to dive into Javascript it was Doug Crockford's video series that helped me explore it. I am impressed with how people got things done under the constraints of old hardware, and can appreciate the unique talents that this community has. Thanks, Eric Hi Eric, Doug Crawford here. Welcome! n hkoThanks for introducing yourself. Did you catch our COBOL thread a ways back? Also perhaps you don't know, we had Ted Nelson at VCFEast two years ago, that was a really cool. I'm in southwest Pottstown, Warwick, near St Peters. There's a few of us reasonably local to here and we get together between VCFed events, often at my place. Perhaps you will join us.