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What's in that date?

Dates and why looking back means something.

Looking back to look forward is always easier than making the same mistake twice, right? Well in terms of computers everyone needs to turn that head around and look back every once in a while. Remember when the year 2000 was the date things would break and well they didn’t?  This date and others are just dates when things happen or they didn’t that are etched in our minds.

 Okay let us talk Tech now. So here are a few that you may not remember 11/29/1975 the date that Micro-soft wording was first used or 08/12/1981 when IBM shipped MS-DOS 1.0 or 11/20/1985 when Windows 1.0 was released (development started in 1981).

 These are dates that for many changed the surface of the computer world as we know it. I was involved back in 1975 with a little thing called High School and while venturing into computers meant you built your own, which I did, most people only knew computers were used in big business. Back in those days I built my home brew computer like many and would spend time tweaking it to get it to flash lights or drive a speaker to make beeping noises. My parents and friends didn’t understand why I spent my entire paper route and other income on something that did well nothing. They sort of knew I was nuts, but I knew different.  I, like Frankenstein, knew that it would one day spring to life. I was on to something, so I kept tinkering, but mostly I was a mini think tank learning what later would spring forth my own dates in history.

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These dates were 6/1/1978 when I started my first company crafting code for the then Apple I (one) computers that where being used here and there. My little company has grown up and back down several times mostly due to our economy. Today I’m still here learning new things learning from looking back and trying not to make too many miss steps. 

You see dates are just markers of life, when marked we hope for the good, but when we look back we sometimes mark them off as “What was I thinking” times. I hope when you look back to those events you’ll see what I have seen a calendar full of times that changed today and for the better!

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CAW (Cool Application of Week)

Everyone needs a good calendar to keep those dates all from blending together -- you know that calendar on the fridge? I use Microsoft Word 2007/2010 (works in Excel also) to make me really cool calendars we can mark up.

Here is how: Just open word and select new and look under templates  >  calendar and your off to the races making calendars instead of buying them for $10.00 plus dollars.

Keep you date calendar open for the Fest - I'll be there talking and shaking hands.

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