After several blogs with different providers, I humbly surrender myself to the almighty Google-powered 'Blogger'. The main goal of this blog will be to give you an inside view in the daily life of someone diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome.
But where are my manners? Isn't it common well-behaviour to introduce one's self? So here's a short resumé.
This old-timer first logged in on the internet way back in 1993; but that wasn't my introduction into computers. That happened in 1979, when I started as a telephone engineer. In those days we had to write our own 'software' to test the telephone exchange. The system worked in Octal and the software carrier was a paper ribbon, with holes punched in it. Very, very High-Tech!
I have since changed career a number of times -even working as a maintanance engineer in a sweet factory- but I've never been without computers ever since.
In 1981 I bought a Texas Instruments TI-99/4, (the version without "lowercase" characters) for which I wrote some Basic software. In those days, creating a game was more fun than playing with the finished product. Fixed internal memory was 64Kb (yes KILO bytes!) and the most frequent notice on the (TV-)screen was 'out of memory'. Mind you: it was a jolly good way to learn to work with routines and subroutines, in order to save memory!
The next in line was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, that -believe it or not- was compatible with the major hardware component of the TI99: the humble cassette recorder, that was used as a storage medium for the software.
The ZX was followed by an ATARI ST 1024. No more TV-screen, but a 'real' monitor, and gone with the cassette recorder: this pc look-a-like worked with floppy disks! Atari made me discover the MIDI gate, although I have no musical talents worth mentioning. The ST was my first computer with a mouse!
By the early nineties Bill Gates was conquering the PC-market, and I finally submitted myself to his victory. My first (12 floppy disks of) MS-DOS pc was assembled by a 'specialist' and never worked properly. So  up to this day I have been building my own pc's.