My name is Gregory. I have been thinking about my own very small place in history and decided to create this page on What's Old.
I bought my first computer more than 25 years ago in late 1982. It was a Commodore 64. I must have been one of the first people in British Columbia to get one. I drove 160 miles across the border to buy it from an electronics shop in Seattle. It cost me $525 with the cassette tape drive and without the dot matrix printer. It had an amazing 64 kilobytes of RAM!!! |
| I soon realized that I knew nothing about programming, that loading anything with a cassette drive took about 30 minutes and that its value would be a small fraction as much within a few months. So I sold it for not much less than I had paid. |
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| By 1983 it was time for a used Atari 1200XL. It was cheap and quite useful. I, and later my sister, used it for word processing and game playing for almost five years. In 1985 to 1986 I completed a year-long full-time Vancouver Community College program in Software Programming. |
A dozen years -- and several computers later -- I was living in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. I got a dial-up Internet account and a 1200 baud modem. (For you kids out there that is about a zillionth of the current high-speed connection speeds).
My first web page went live with the Mindlink! ISP on April 14, 1996. (That early HTML was the basis of my current Armstrong web page).
This NotSorry.com site went live on June 5, 1997. You can visit historical versions of my web site -- and millions of others -- at the Wayback Machine. |
My business oriented web pages were at SoftOkay.com between February 1999 and 2004.
My software and business web site -- ActiveAlertData.com -- was folded into this one in 2008.
My business pages are now found here. |
