Bbannon
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I'm Bruce Bannon.
Retired Air Force. Been working on/with computers for more than 29 years. Relatively new to PHP and MySQL. Complete newbie to wiki. :) We'll see how it goes.
My first Air Force assignment was to the North American Air (now Aerospace) Defense Command (NORAD) in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs. I was so excited! A chance to work on top-of-the-line, state-of-the-art computers! YES! Then I saw the behemoth they called a 'computer'. Older than me; 19 years at the time. Covered more than 1000 square feet of floor space. Generated enough heat to keep a small Canadian town comfortable all winter. Vacuum tubes, for crying out loud; hundreds of them! Four Kilobytes (4096 bytes) of iron core, (tiny iron donuts strung on wires), for memory. A 'hard drive' the size of a large double-wide refrigerator that held all of 10 Megabytes. What a let down. :(
My first personal computer, an Apple II, did the job better, faster, and more accurately, using the same NASA data, than that monster iron. :)
And I was dumb enough to stay in for 20 years anyway. Oh, well.
Now, my 'main' website is at Keep More of What You Earn. Just a simple page to help people save a few thousand dollars off their mortgages. I paid off my 30 year mortgage in 8.5 years by using this program aggressively. Cut more than $40,000 off the interest on my $37,500 loan. :) casino spielen
I like to try to build other web sites, too. I coded this one, Retail Solutions LLC, for a friend. She designed it.
I like to hunt, ski, scuba dive and build furniture. I'm just so busy and tired that I haven't done any of that for years. Usually, I just settle for reading a good book; sci-fi or computer. I think I need about a three month vacation. ;)
Wow, how times have changed! Just read this article about NORAD, [1]
NORAD's Bunker Home Going Into Standby Mode
By KIRK JOHNSON The New York Times
Published: Jul 29, 2006.
Hard to believe it's closing down. Maybe I'll be able to buy the place and make it my home in a couple of years. :)
