I am 46, and am a university biology professor.  Learned ALGOL as a
student, then BASIC on my own.  Hand-built my first computer (North Star
Horizon) in 1978; then moved to a 286 PC clone, and then was introduced to
Macs during a 1988 sabbatical year in Australia.  I bought a IIcx upon
returning (it still works), wrote some data acquisition and analysis
software in QuickBasic, then ported it to FB in 1994.  I currently use a G3
at home and assorted 040 and PPC 604 machines at work.


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       Mark Chappell
       Biology Department, UC Riverside
       (909) 787-6418 or -5901
        email:  CHAPPELL@...
       web: http://cnas.ucr.edu/~bio/faculty/Chappell.html
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