Happy 35th Birthday Apple

April 1st, 2011 by Michael in Elon University Elon, NC

I almost forgot another significance to April Fools’ Day, today is Apple’s 35th birthday. I can’t say that I remember them from day one since I wasn’t even born but I can remember the first computer I laid my hands on. This was a Franklin ACE 1200, with a $2,200 price tag, dual 5.25″ drives and 48k of RAM. WOW that was a machine!! I can’t even recall how to work the machine but I do remember my dad teaching me the basic syntax to make games execute. That was enough to ignite my interest in computers for years to come. The rest is history… To many more years of Apple innovation, just be careful not to become “the man.” Thanks dad for making me a tech addict and Happy birthday Apple.

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City of Brotherly Love

March 28th, 2007 by Michael in

Its once in your life you get to celebrate your Golden Year. This year it was mine! I was about to embark on a cool trip with my sister to Philadelphia. I’ve never been there that I’ve recalled, but I was probably a baby the last I went through so that really doesn’t count. This trip had been planned weeks in advance but like the norm of the shepherd family, you don’t commit to a trip until the last minute. Being a family that has always flown standby where ever we went, traveling was pretty convenient and spontaneous.Leaving work after one o’clock, I swung by Raleigh to pick my sister up then we started the long journey down the endless black asphalt road of I-95. I think the number 95 actually suggested the speed limit that some follow in the state of Virginia. Knowing that we both were going to read more…

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