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Alatari?

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Alatari - Online handle derived from Alatar the Blue who is one of the Istari in the fictional world created by J.R.R. Tolkien. A set of books that kept me bleary eyed and missing some school and summer work during 1979-1982. There was a time that if you named a character at random from any of his works I could tell you who they were and their significance to the Middle Earth tales. This probably accounts for the lack of dating during that period...
Was employed at the first Computer Software store in St. Louis Missouri called CompuSoft and as one of the first personal computer software sellers, have an interest in those Wikipedia articles.

What is Your World View?

Postmodernist

94%

Materialist

88%

Existentialist

63%

Idealist

50%

Modernist

50%

Cultural Creative

44%

Romanticist

25%

Fundamentalist

13%
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Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no absolute truth for you; even the most hardened facts are open to interpretation. Meaning relies on context and even the language you use to describe things should be subject to analysis.



History

In 1978 I bought my first machine: a Commodore PET 2001-N with 16k RAM and no input device. I was 15 and had cleaned out my college savings and I kept it hidden in a large box in the basement entering all my own programs by hand. Boy was there some arguing when it was found. After all was said they bought me the missing tape deck so I could actually load software. Later I started work at the first Software store in St. Louis where my friend and TRS-80 owner worked. The owner needed a display PET and I was to bring mine in. Drove it seat belted in the passenger seat every day after school. Spent a lot of time on the TRS-80's and the lone Apple II. The Apple got very little attention for the software titles for the TRS-80 were so numerous and the business clients thought of it as a game only machine. Guess the color graphics worked against it in 1979 and the distribution in St. Louis was from only one store called Computer Country. Went thru 4 years of college, my PET gathering dust while I wasted my time learning PL/1, FORTRAN and COBOL and one useful class of 8088 Assembler on IBM 5150's. Pieced together my first 8088 clone after graduation and have worked on them and with them ever since...

Pages I contribute to

Other contributions

As http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=User:Uni_Zueto I contribute to http://Eve-Wiki.net/ for the highly addictive Eve Online MMORPG.

Thoughts

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