My Linux Story column

I grew up in the VAX/ VMS world. Our student computing system at the college I attended was a VAX 11/785, and when I would later work for the administrative computing…

I still remember the first time I saw Linux. It was in late 1996 during an optional afterschool course, and the PC at school was running Enlightenment window manager. It was…

In 1992 I started working for the Tandem Computers subsidiary in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I was part of the team that started Tandem's operations in Brazil, and at the time I was…

My father got me a computer for graduation with 512MB RAM and a Pentium processor. It came with Windows XP, and I used it to do 2D animation with Adobe Flash. Back in those…

Having lived and breathed computers and electronics since I first helped my dad run a card sorter at work as a child, I've never been afraid to try new things (or to break…

I was born in 1933, so computers weren't something I grew up with. In fact, neither was TV, atomic energy, or even jet planes. For my first 70 years I had neither the need nor…