I have been involved with personal computers since I bought my first Commodore Vic-20 with a whopping 5KB of memory, no hard drive and no floppy drive. OK, it did have a cassette drive... you could set it up to load a program and have time to go eat lunch while it was loading!
Prior to that, I had used a large Honeywell mainframe computer at college. It took up a room larger than my house, had to be environmentally controlled, and was constantly served by a swarming team of white lab-coated servants. My programs were typed on "punch-cards", wrapped in rubber bands, and submitted to the servants. Several days later I would get the results, and if I had made any errors, would figure out what was wrong and retype the offending cards. Of course that was often a large stack of cards.
We have certainly come a long way since then, and my PocketPC (or even my cell phone) are more powerful, convenient and accessible than either the Vic-20 or the mainframe.
Anyway, in the intervening years, I have built, repaired and used more computers than I care to even attempt to remember, and have worked with numerous operating systems, including DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP and Vista, numerous Linux distributions, and even the occassional Mac, although my Mac experience is too little to claim any level of proficiency.
I have programmed in BASIC and FORTRAN and have written batch and scripting files to accomplish tasks that I wanted to automate or make easier to accomplish. I have also learned HTML, CSS, and a bit of Javascript to put together some websites. I DO NOT, however, have any higher-level programming experience, such as C++, etc. That is on my to-do list, but is so far down my ever-expanding list that I doubt I will ever get there.
I would be happy to help you with your computer problems. Please visit my Mr. Fix-It website, or see my contact page.
I am an active member of the SWLAPCUG, a fantastic computer club in the southwest Louisiana area, and serve as one of the website administrators, occassional article writer for the newsletter, club CD chairman and architect, and co-leader of both the Q&A SIG (question & answer special interest group) and the Beginners' SIG. Please feel free to visit our site, and I hope you may be inspired to join our group.
Thanks for stopping in.
Tom