Notices by sparseMatrix ✅✅ 📻 (sparsematrix@ioc.exchange)

#introductions

It never really occurred to me to do one of these, because I've been around for a while, first at mastodon.social, and sometime later, here.

I've been around since well before the internet. I cut my teeth on a 300 baud pulse dial modem hanging out of the back of a C64.

The holy grail for me was the appropriate wiring on a cartridge interface to implement an RS232 serial port, where I planned to connect a Hayes 1200 baud smart modem, as soon as I could get one.

I got the Hayes modem with an IMSAI 8080 in a consignment bin at AUSTEX Electronics in San Antonio; as luck would have it, I was soon up to my ears in CP/M computers, each with it's own modem. I was in my early twenties. I lived with my parents. You know the drill.

FASTFORWARD

I'm old, I've done all this shit several times. Am I bitter? HELL NO! I love all this shit still, it still kicks ass, and so do I.

Hide and watch! and hit me up anytime, for whatever.

@aral

As someone who has participated in the formation and operation of a 501(c) non profit and who served as it’s unpaid CEO for two years, Ican tell you that that’s not how that works at all, *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*

@aral

Note that there is nothing illegal or or immoral in non-profits paying their corporate officers and employees.