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oldfart:
Greetings one and all.  My name is Denny Garland and I have no idea how I stumbled upon DonationCoder although I suspect one of your programs was highlighted on one of the computer RSS feeds I have.  I am a 59 year old man living in Chatham, Illinois, about 90 miles NE of St. Louis. 
I picked up a used IBM SX-2[?] 75MHz computer back in '94 and played with it until I could upgrade no further [Mobo couldn't handle a CD ROM].  I then bought a Gateway 200MHz machine in January of '95 and immediately started futzing with it.  The absolutely huge 2.5GB hard drive that I couldn't foresee ever filling lasted less than two years before I upgraded to a 10GB drive.  I built my first machine in '99.
While I loved messing with hardware and playing with software, I never got in to coding.  I taught myself enough to become the tech support for a large family and most of my friends, which kept me busy learning about bugs, viruses, hardware conflicts and software. 
I picked up a job running the parts department for a small Chevy dealership and soon became their IT manager also.  I taught most of the staff how to use their computer, set up our first network and handled all updates, upgrades and email for the dealership. 
A genetic problem with my spine forced me to have surgery two years ago and soon afterward it was discovered that I have compressive neuropathy, a disease usually found in diabetics and AIDS sufferers but every once in a while it strikes someone in the general population and I was the lucky fellow.
The disability and the medications I have to take for pain management [morphine at this point] finally forced me to leave my job and go on disability last July.
At first the drugs left me pretty much null and void but I've become somewhat used to them lately and started getting back into computing.  It was at this point that I stumbled upon your site, downloaded a program [ Clipboard Help and Spell], started reading the forum and decided to join up.  I've been a member for just a few weeks but I've already gotten more value than I paid for. 
I really enjoy the forum and am trying to catch up by reading all the posts.  I haven't been in a chat room for twelve years or so and I had even quit reading message boards, mostly because they seemed to be populated by vulgar adolescents who can't spell. [I don't mind vulgar that much and I don't mind youth but bad spelling sends me round the bend] I'm so happy I found you folks.   
In just a few weeks I've downloaded at least two dozen program [haven't installed them all yet] and added dozens of bookmarks, all suggested or reviewed by you folks.  Thanks.

techidave:
Hello everyone,

My name is Dave and I live in western Kansas in a small town of 250 people called Burdett.  I don't remember exactly how I stumbled accross this site but have been reading it for a while before joining last month.  I am 54 years old and am the husband of one wife who is the mother of my 5 children.  We currently have 2 remaining at home.  We all like computers and are pretty much self taught with the exception of my wife who majored in programming in college back in the good ol' keypunch days.

Our first computer was the Tandy Color Computer with an external cassette recorder.  Then we graduated to a 386SX, then to a PII-233 in 1998.  from there I had a Athlon XP1800 and just recently built a 1.6 Dual Core computer.

I am in charge of IT at a small K-12 school district composed of 2 districts and 3 buildings in 3 different towns.  I handle the network, hardware, software and any other problems that come up.  When I came here in 2002 we had 45 computers, one server in 2 buildings.  Now we  have 250 computers, 10 servers in 3 buildings, so we are coming up in th world.  We now have 10 Macbook laptops for our high school yearbook and web design and I do not like them at all.  I also have one of them that also has Windows on it and for that I am thankful.  Enough said! :-[

In 1997 at 44 years of age, I answered a call of God to attend a bible school, Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, Tx.  How we got there is probably not for this post and if anyone is interested I can email this amazing story to you.  I did become an ordained minister, had a church for a year and half but am not currently pastoring at this moment.  But I am active in a church.

I have 2 grandsons living in Alvarado, Tx that we don't get to see all that much but I do not like the 9 hour drive it takes to get there.  We are 300 miles from Kansas City and Oklahoma City, 500 miles from Denver, Colorado and Dallas, Tx but only 140 miles form Wichita, KS.  So we are aways from any city of any decent size.  But its hard to get the country boy into the city (no, I am not a cowboy). 

I do use FARR, Screenshot Captor, and some other programs from this site and I do APPRECIATE all the help everyone has given me and for putting up with my "silly" questions on how to do stuff.  I really appreciate the fact this site doesn't have a lot of the bad langauge and flame wars like some other sites that I used to read do. 

Keep up the good work!

Dave

Darwin:
Dave and Denny - thank you for posting your introductions and WELCOME to DC  :-* I look forward to seeing more of you "on the boards"  :Thmbsup:

mitzevo:
Hi my names mitzevo and I'm a DC junkie :( I've tried to do away with the habit but I can't help my self.. I guess you could call me DC'aholic.. Or in plain terms software junkie, but I prefer DC junkie, I don't know why, other people say I scare them at times.. I just need to relax, they say.

 :'(

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And welcome Denny! I'm glad you find DC worth the time for writing such a good intro :)

P.S., why does God never call me? :( . perhaps my phone is turned off.. hehe j/k :) Welcome welcome, DC is the best!

tomos:
hi Denny and Dave! Welcome and all that!
Mitzevo, you relax now-hear?! :P

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