Hi, > It may be a generational thing with me, too. I took my first computer class > in art school at age 26, using 128k Macs. I was at Dartmouth when John [...] > Little did I know, then, that someday the ancient > darkroom alchemy that I also enjoyed learning about would one day be > transported to the realm of the keyboard, the cathode-ray tube, and the > processor. <*sigh*>
I also had a liberal arts background. I took no science or maths classes after the age of 13. I studied French, German and Latin until the age of 18, then went on to college and studied French, Spanish and Linguistics. I failed my Maths O-level at 13 the first time I took it, but scraped by on the re-sit. In the 2nd year at college (1976/7) I was supposed to do a 1-week's computer appreciation course, but I played pool in the pub instead because computers were mathematical and I would have absolutely no need of them in my future. I never saw a computer until I was about 23, when I had to use one at the British Library, where I worked, to access the online service at Ohio University. Since then I've worked for nearly 22 years in software development and my highest qualification is a post-graduate one (with merit!) in Formal Specification & Discrete Mathematics. Weird. Now, how do I set this VCR... --- Bob
