Computer History

• 1977 first electronical kit
• 1979 digital electronical kit
• From 1981 on first computer experience at high school with CBM 3032
• From 1983 on owner of a C-64 with Datasette, later a Floppy. At that time excellent knowledge of C-64 Hardware-, BASIC and Assembler. Biggest selfwritten program was a text processor written in Forth and Assembler, also I wrote a simple database.
• 1985 at school curse based on 8085-computers, good knowledge of hardware and software.
• 1986-1992 Study of information science at university of Hamburg science of business as addition. Special sections were computer graphics (2 and 3D), static-/FEM-calculation and Operations-Research.
• From 1987 on proud owner of a ATARI-ST, later also of a 20MB harddisc. At the beginning programming of 68000-Assembler later only C-programming. I created a lot of various small programs and two bigger ones. One was a net planning program using a graphical user interface, the other was my dissertation, a nesting program called Polygonplacer.
• After study I worked form 1993 to 1998 in the EDP-department of a company producing pipe hangers. I was responsible at there on the adaption and expansion of the standard-ERP-package EKS to the needs of the company. This included the development of some EDP-organisation schemes inside the company.
• From 1994 on an Acorn RiscPC600 replaced my ATARI ST. On the Acorn I created a simple Signum TEX to Impression Style converter, a (slow) Fileprotection-System, a CEPT-Decoder (which no one wanted to buy), and ein system to realize telephone answering machines. Of course I ported my dissertation to RiscOS. It runs on a 200 Mhz Strong-ARM approximately 100 times faster than on the ATARI ST...
• From 1998 on I am working at a shipment company. I am programming with EXCEL using VBA (a horrible concept ...) or with EXCEL using Macros and the OLAP-Database TM1 (classification see EXCEL/VBA). Another area is the programming under RBASE Again I am developing some EDP-organisation schemes.
• From March 1999 on I am also using a PSION Serie 5 pocket computer.