Computers and Communications

Electrons dance in your CPU
and Bounce back and forth
in all the wires too!

Here are my career interests:

• Computer Communications
  If you'd like to call me at home to experience dialing into a BBS with your modem I live in the San Fernando Valley, just north of Los Angeles, CA; drop me an email and we can arrange some time for you to call in. I've also studied and used Email (SMTP and POP3), HTTP (of course!), FTP, telenet, Finger, MS Net Meeting, ICQ, pcAnywhere (elsewhere) and other forms of remote control (such as trojans) on the Internet, and at the same location direct connections between two computers using serial and parallel ports (such as RS-232).



• Computers


1. I hope you enjoy this article about the Hexadecimal number system and its use on computers. There's a very brief section on the history of the PC here as well:
   
   So, What Is Hexadecimal, and Where Can I Find It On My Computer?"



2. How To Make a Boot Disk   and   What Files/Programs should be on it?



3. Can your computer use all the space on a new hard drive? (Very good historical info, but outdated regarding the very large hard drives now available!)
   The 504 Megabyte Barrier, and the New 2.1 Gigabyte Limit !



• Programming


The Starman's PERL pages: "How to download and install PERL 5 for Windows™ 95 and NT." Includes links to online courses in Perl and books about Perl you can download.

Perl Icons. Includes all the information necessary to associate your .pl files and icons with the perl executable in Windows™ 95.


• Electronics
  
  

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I used to check out video cameras and "vision" software as part of my job with IOC.

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