I am a horticultural salesman by trade. I work in Southern California for the largest nursery retail chain west of the Rockies. I discovered horticulture very early in life through my father and older brother (both Ralphs). I was the kid in the neighborhood that mowed lawns and cleaned pools. After taking a single horticulture class in high school I was hooked. I was amazed to find that I could make a living working with plants. I moved to northern California in the late 70?s (much less crowded up there back then) and the rest is history
As I said earlier, I discovered Star Trek early, and thought that the show was totally cool. I was amazed as a child that the automatic doors I saw on the Enterprise first made their debut in the real world in grocery stores (whod?'a thunk?). The home computers, and other stuff that followed, seemed to all be born of things that were taken for granted in the world of Star Trek.
When I was in junior-high, my oldest brother worked with computers at a local college. He would let a friend of mine and me into the basement of the facility to play on terminals in an unoccupied class room. We would call these terminals ?teletype machines? today, as the data was printed out on a roll of paper! The ?cathode ray tube? viewing screen or CRT was invented later. This was a blast, and guess what, most of the games on the computer were Star Trek games! We had rolls and rolls of games we had played and would review them by rolling them out on the floor and going from printed ?screen? to ?screen? following the games progress.
Years later, after Star Wars was released, and Paramount Studios remembered that they had a Science Fiction show in their assembled holdings, Star trek Was back on the air. The Macintosh computer was in it?s infancy. AOL was just getting people interested in the Internet. I was looking to get a computer of my own. My brother-in-law had an original Macintosh he could loan me. I was hooked again.
That is what has brought me here, four Star Trek series, and Four Macintosh computers, later.
Live Long, And Prosper!
