Richard A. Allcorn, ITguy

Austin, Texas USA

Rich Allcorn, aka "Richard A. Allcorn", grew up around mainframe computers (then AutoLOGIC) through his uncle, and had his first around-the-world chat on a typewriter terminal console in college (1977), before instant messenger clients even existed. His first "pc" was an EagleStar desktop model. The DOS was CP/M 2.2, before IBM named their pc a "PC", and their DOS, "DOS". His first experience with UNIX was with SCO-XENIX, the first UNIX released for use on personal computers. He fell in love with the sh