Søren's Corner

First, I picked up electronics as a hobby. This was in the late seventies, and I was a pre-teen. I started in high school in the early eighties. And that's when and where my interest in computers began. There was a computer classroom at the school, and I would go there every day after school to play games and write programs. The same year I started high school, I got a Commodore 64 for Christmas.

When I started at University in the late eighties, my original plan was to study electronics. But, I quickly realized that programming, numerical analysis, and computer graphics were much more up my alley. And ever since I graduated, I've worked professionally with software development.

But, I never lost interest in electronics. And with the emergence of cheap single-board microcontrollers, like the Arduino, I began tinkering with electronics again.

The first Operating System I used was CP/M. Then I got my C64, which came with the KERNAL, a ROM-based OS. Like many others, I upgraded to an Amiga 500 from the C64. And later I bought an Amiga 3000. They, of course, ran AmigaOS.

While studying for my Master of Science degree, I worked with several Operating Systems. There were several "data bars" on campus. A "data bar" was a room filled with terminals or computers where you could work on your assignments. I think the terminals connected you to an IBM System/370 mainframe. The computers were usually PCs with MS-DOS, but I also worked on different UNIX systems.

After graduation, I got a job working with HP-UX and Windows NT. At home, I got a Windows 95/98 PC. I wasn't happy with Windows. So, I started installing Linux on my computers, and Linux is what I still prefer using.