I was involved with the now-defunct Computer Museum of America / San Diego Computer Museum for most of the 1990s and up through the 2005 demise of the Museum. I was also an active member of the San Diego Computer Society and the San Diego Atari Computer Enthusiasts, and have been writing for San Diego's ComputorEdge magazine since 1991.

My first computer was a homebrew KIM-I clone my dad built in the mid-'70s. He hooked it up to a hex display at first, then a Teletype, and finally a TV as monitor. It was housed in an old IBM waist-high computer cabinet.

About the same time, my dad bought a Fairchild Channel F game system - the first game console with removable cartridges. In 1978, he bought an Atari 400. In 1982, he upgraded it to an Atari 800. In 1985, he bought a 16-bit Atari ST. I later bought my own ST and used it until the early '90s. At various times, I've owned and used an IBM XT clone, an Amiga 1000, a '486 SX-33, a Radio Shack Model 100, and a Pentium Pro 233. I currently have and use a Pentium II dual processor with Windows 2K, a PIII with W2K, a P4 with XP sp2, an iMac, and an Atari Falcon030. We also have an Atari 2600, an Atari XE game system, an Atari Jaguar, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo GameCube, XBox and a PlayStation II. My son also has a PSP and a GameBoy DS.