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- Short biographical information:
-
- Name: Jonathan David Guidry
- Place: New Iberia, Louisiana
- B-Day: July 4, 1975(Currently 18 years old)(Just graduated-May
- '93)
- Family: Oldest of 5 children (have two brothers, 9
- and 11, and two sisters, 13 and 16).
- 'Puter: Amiga 600 with 85 meg Seagate drive, cordless mouse,
- Magnavox RGB monitor, US Robotics 14.4 Sportster modem,
- 1010 External drive, 2 megs CHIP mem and clock. Also
- alot of cables and wires.
- Fidonet: 1:3803/3.4 and 1:3803/8.7
-
- Ok.. now's here's my _long_ biography......
-
- I have been involved with computers ever since 1981 when
- I got my first computer, a TI-99/4A. A cassette player,
- modules, and a speech synthesizer soon followed. That was my
- setup until August 1990. August 1990 brought about an
- "Expansion" box with disk drive, RS232 and 32K of extra
- memory(which I thought was "The Thing" at the time). I bought
- this TI expansion box(which weighs about 40 pounds, talk about
- a boat anchor) from a person named Alvin Derouen(1:3803/3.6).
- I will never forget the first time I walked in there, he showed
- me a demo(or tried to). He had a A2500 set up with a 20"
- multisync under WB1.3(still has it and is still using it too).
- He tried to show me the VAUX killer demo first, but he couldn't
- get it to run because of a bug in Qmouse 1.3. The second demo
- he showed me was the Walker 2MB demo with the walker roaming
- around an A2000. I was pretty impressed when I saw that demo
- and said "wow, that's an awesome machine" and just walked off
- happy with my TI-99/4A. April 1991, Alvin lent me a Hayes 1200
- modem. I was introduced to the world of BBSing. It was almost
- two weeks before the local owner of Radio Shack told me about a
- local bulletin board. Exactly one year later, April 1992, I
- made my first mistake... I bought a Tandy 1000 SL from my next
- door neighbors for $500. I really hated the DOS and the way it
- ran things, so I started to want to sell it. June 1992 I got a
- second job and talked to one of my friends(Rodrick Babineaux)
- and he got me an A500. I paid him in installments and was
- _very_ happy with it. For two months I ran it B&W off of a TV.
- I finally bit down and bought a A1010(which I still have) from
- him as well as a Color A520 adapter from Tenex. I then found
- out about the world of FIDOnet. I set up my first
- point(1:3803/7.3) off of a IBM bbs(which happened to have ALL
- kinds of problems). The Tandy 1000 SL got sold shortly after I
- switched points, as a person in the local paper got interested
- and bought it from me (good riddance to it). I begged my
- parents to get circular dialing(LOS) so I could call
- Lafayette(which was LD) and call the Amiga bbs. ($11.00 cap
- with a 40 mile radius). I got it, promptly dropped 1:3803/7.3
- and became 1:3803/3.4. November came and I had a friend
- interested in my A500, so I sold it to him and got a new one.
- For Christmas 1992, I got a Magnavox RGB analog monitor(1040 S
- clone). Then, I started seeing programs that said "Workbench
- 2.0 only" and had to get a new computer. Income tax time came,
- and I bought my Amiga 600 and 1 meg expansion ram/clock card
- for it(really split the cost with my parents). May 1993 and I
- received an 85 meg HD for my graduation present. My most recent
- additions came when I sold my A500 that I bought in November.
- I bought a US Robotics 14.4 and a cordless mouse. So, there you
- go, my system setup. I use my Amiga for wordprocessing for
- school, telecommunications, FIDOnet mail, games, and many other
- things. I plan on staying with Amiga for a long while and
- really don't like IBMs at all :-)
-
- I took computer literacy classes in the 8th and 9th grades, and
- in the 11th and 12th I took Computer Science I and II. I am a
- proud member of the class of 1993 of New Iberia Senior High
- School. I also have taken business courses and belonged to the
- Future Business Leaders of America(FBLA). My 11th grade year, I
- placed at district(Superior) and I placed 7th at State in
- Computer Concepts. My 12th grade year, I placed at
- district(Superior), placed 1st at State, and attended
- National.(July 2nd-9th of this year in Washington D.C.) I have
- had plenty involvement in programming contests and Computer
- Science rallies throughout my high school years.
-
- For those interested in corresponding with me, netmail me at my
- point. I also enjoy bicycling and electronics. I am also
- girlfriendless. :-)
-
- Enjoy,
- Jonathan D. Guidry
- 1:3803/3.4
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