About Me

Full Name

Michael J. Chappell

Date of Birth

May 23, 1969

EMAIL

mcsuper5.at.freeshell.org
replace “.at.” as appropriate.

Occupation

I'm currently an Automated Examinations Systems Specialist for the I.R.S.

Previous Occupations

• I.R.S.
  • Automated Examination Systems Specialist.
  • Correspondence Examination Technician.
  • Input Corrections.
• Stock Person at various stores in various malls.
• CTIS
  • Did telephone surveys with known and unknown clients.
  • Monitored other interviewers on surveys.
  • Maintained a database with interviewers data.
  • Advised interviewers on how to better approach the subject on the phone ocasionally.
  • Supervised multiple jobs (somewhat to very unsuccessfully.)
• Bon-Ton
  • Sales Person
  • Stock Person
• Cook at various fast food joints.
• Dishwasher at multiple restaurants.

Education

I attended Temple University for a few years.

Computers

I've owned, as primary daily drivers, two Commodore-64s, a Tandy 1000 HX, a Packard Bell 80486SX, an HP Pavillion 4450, an eMachine T3256, a Compaq Presario PC SR5612F, an Acer Aspire AM3100-U3401A, several Mac Minis and a Mac Book Pro. These days my primary machines are a Dell G5 5090 running MS Windows 11, and a System76 Darter Pro running Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS. I'm taking Budgie Desktop for a spin.

I've worked with Sun and VAX machines at previous employers.

I actually cut my teeth programming a TRS-80 Model I and used TRS-80 Models III & IV in highschool.

I've also acquired a number of PC compatibles and laptops over the years.

Operating Systems

I've used:

• Various forms of MS-DOS/PC-DOS starting with version 2.11;
• MS Windows starting from version 3.1;
• Various versions of Unix, BSD, OS X and Linux;
• A little VMS.

Programming Languages

Programming chores are usually done in Bash, BASIC, C/C++, Pascal, some Fortran and Perl. Some of it even does what is expected.

I prefer scripting in Bash and writing programs in C.

Software Suites/Editors

In college I learned some basics on Word Perfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and DBase.

Working, I generally use MS Office's Word and Excel. If I can get away with using Notepad or Edit, I will. Actually, COPY CON works in a pinch.

At home, if I need an Office Application, I will usually use Libre Office since it is cross platform, or Gnumeric if I only need the spreadsheet on my Linux machine.

My programming is usually done in Vim or Emacs.

My website is maintained with Emacs or Vim with a custom Makefile.

Interests

My interests include vintage computers, legacy operating systems, networking, numismatics (U.S. coins primarily), and sci-fi/fantasy movies, especially touching on time travel, paleontology, astronomy and ancient Greco/Roman deities.

Movies or series about mythological creatures are always fun as long as there is an attempt to stick to their own universe's cannon and show character development.

Video Games

• Minions of Mirth Undead Wars
• Dungeons and Dragons Online
• Guild Wars 2
• Sudoku Epic

Vintage Machines

A few of the vintage machines I've managed to collect so far are:

• Apple Macintosh Plus
• Apple PowerMac G4
• Apple Powerbook G3
• Atari 800XL
• Commodore 128
• Commodore C64
• HP 48G+ (Programmable Calculator)
• Magnavox Odyssey 2

Where to Find Me

SDF.ORG:	Web	Gopher	Gemini
TILDE.GURU:	Web		Gemini
TILDE.INSTITUTE:	Web	Gopher

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Friday, 20 September 2024   Michael J. Chappell   Contact me at: mcsuper5@freeshell.org