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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Blame it on the rain…

May 14th, 2007 by Michael in Basel, Switzerland

Saturday was our final day in Holland so our host friends decided to take us north of Amsterdam to visit a small cheese shop and a clog museum. We packed all our things and the four of us crammed into a mini Daewoo large enough to fix two kegs of Heineken beer. On the way I was pretty excited to see the arena where the national team of Holland plays futbol but I would have to leave seeing a game for the next trip.Going through the cheese room, the tour guide was very impressive as she kept changing languages on the fly to accommodate for all the people. She also reprimanded anyone who tried to come through the door into our showing. She just shooed them off and told them to wait until the next tour, one man kinda seemed insulted but she just carried on with her multilingual lines. read more…

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