I had fun going down memory lane with Scott Matteson in his progress from an Atari 400 to his IT Administrator job over the past 30 years. My journey was similar; except that I was older when I got my first computer in the early Eighties. I had an Atari 2600 game machine that had a cartridge for word processing, and I rapidly advanced to the Atari 800 which I used for early forays into the text based Internet. I still remember the excitement of generating my own correspondence and pleadings. I love the advances in tech that permit me to make phone calls from my wrist; but, tech is really one area in which they don’t make them like they used to. If you have been around for the computer revolution (or even if you haven’t) you should read this article. You might just see yourself in these paragraphs.
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