While I find the idea of writing about myself a little odd, what was once crass and embarrassing is now modern and assumed, like the wearing of underpants over your clothes.
I am an artist with a background in technology. My main strength is synthesis -- problem-solving across multiple discipline boundaries. Computers, software, and electronics since 1977; computer networking since 1984, internet since 1992, basic machine-shop skills, are now all applied to my artwork.
| My Curriculum Vitae | 1973-present | Just the facks |
| My My technical/professional resume | 1973-present | Likewise |
| A brief biography | 1996-present | Open-ended |
| World Power Systems | 1996-present | Open-ended |
| An example of recent artwork | 1999 | (List of all artwork here) |
| Historical research: "History of character codes" | 1999 | (Other writing) |
| A psychological profile | 1996 | Will I go postal? Read on! |
| Little Garden/TLGnet | 1992-1996 | Single-minded |
| Fido & FidoNet | 1983-1994 | Illuminating, unpredicted success |
| HOMOCORE 'zine | 1989-1991 | Culture-hacking |
| Two major, early jobs | 1973-1984 | Interesting enough I suppose |
| LPG/propane automobile | 1989-present | Non-computer, non-symbolic hacking |
| Various personal projects & trivia | *.* |
Footnotes
I'm reasonably obsessed with the early history of electronic computing (say 1936-1963).
Believe it or not, nearly everyone in ye olden dayes believed that computers were for calculating numbers. (And as recently as 1975 a coworker told me that microcomputers of that time (6800, 8080) weren't really computers because they were only 8-bits wide. I had no answer for him then.) A very few people knew better, basically, Alan Turing and maybe John von Neumann Turing really got it, in 1936 writing that mathematical computing was merely a subset of fiddling arbitrary symbols within physical machines.
I collect, and read, a lot of original material in my favorite period (more or less, 1940-1960), including little bits I've put online (more to follow as time permits), and have a pretty good grasp of what Thomas Kuhn calls the 'integrity of a discarded mode of thought', at least from this peculiar period.
What I'll do with this useless knowledge is unknown, but I try to not worry about such things. A sample of recent work: A history of character codes.
Contact: Tom Jennings
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