Hi Everybody,
Just registered and thought I'd introduce myself, here's a few details about me. I'm in my mid fifties, played with other friends computers (Apple IIe, PET, Vic-20) before my dad got a Franklin Ace 1200. Graduated from college with a computer programming cert and have worked over 30 years in the industry as a programmer/software architect. I've recently fallen into a retro computing rabbit-hole on YouTube (mac84, Adrian Black, Action Retro, etc...) and want to get into finding and fixing old machines. A few weeks ago a good friend passed away and left behind several Apple computers from a IIe all the way to a 2013 iMac. This has given me extra incentive to get into this hobby so I can revive the older machines and get to any pertient data on his many Apple II 5 1/4" and 800K 3 1/2" floppies. I have a very basic understanding of electronics, I like messing around with Raspberry Pis and do some 3d printing. Seeing folks bring these great machines back to life and even making new software and hardware for them is a real thrill.
That's probably enough for now. See you out there!
Cheers,
Mike
Just registered and thought I'd introduce myself, here's a few details about me. I'm in my mid fifties, played with other friends computers (Apple IIe, PET, Vic-20) before my dad got a Franklin Ace 1200. Graduated from college with a computer programming cert and have worked over 30 years in the industry as a programmer/software architect. I've recently fallen into a retro computing rabbit-hole on YouTube (mac84, Adrian Black, Action Retro, etc...) and want to get into finding and fixing old machines. A few weeks ago a good friend passed away and left behind several Apple computers from a IIe all the way to a 2013 iMac. This has given me extra incentive to get into this hobby so I can revive the older machines and get to any pertient data on his many Apple II 5 1/4" and 800K 3 1/2" floppies. I have a very basic understanding of electronics, I like messing around with Raspberry Pis and do some 3d printing. Seeing folks bring these great machines back to life and even making new software and hardware for them is a real thrill.
That's probably enough for now. See you out there!
Cheers,
Mike
