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In decades of giving and attending thousands of presentations, I’ve learned a thing or two about how to give a talk, a webinar and a technology demonstration. Back in 2015, while I was working for Evans Data in Santa Cruz, I created a blog post “Most Everything I learned about READ MORE

My Worst Delphi Program The worst “on-the-fly” (pun intended) Delphi demo I ever wrote was a thread based sort program (Dreaded Sorts). I created the code on the flight from San Jose to Seattle for the Microsoft Windows 95 launch. The launch took place on Thursday August 24, 1995 on READ MORE

The first personal computer I owned was an IMSAI 8080 kit computer that I bought and put together in December 1975. Putting the IMSAI kit together involved a lot of soldering: Soldered all twenty-two slot S-100 bus connectors onto the non-solder-masked motherboard Soldered the front panel circuit board, Intel 8080 READ MORE