From the base of the Big Horn Mtns. in historic Sheridan, Wyoming

Welcome to the remodeled Old Hippy's Place. I'm John aka The Old Hippy,a name I thought was unique until I did a search on Yahoo.   The Old Hippy is shorter than the nickname I had in the early 80's. Some younger friends used to call me the "1968 Haight-Ashbury Burnout".   I think Old Hippy is much nicer.    Anyway, Onwards, Upwards, Quest into the Unknown! Excelsior!

I was born in the 50's, grew up in the 60's and went to Vietnam on my Senior trip (Talk about your bad travel agent).   I spent 12 yearsin the Navy and killed quite a few brain cells with booze and drugs.   Who knew then that I would need all the brain cells I could get later in life.   It was in the Navy that I got into computers.   I was sharing an office on the USS Midway (CV-41) with the officer in charge of the Data Processing division and his Wang Computer.   He let me use the computer to play Star Trek (for all you kiddies out there this isn't the Star Trek you can buy in the stores now. This Star Trek was written in BASIC), football, and run the BASIC tutorial at night.   By the time I was done with the BASIC tutorial I'd rewritten the Star Trek program so that everytime I was fired on by Klingons the Enterprise absorbed the energy of the explosion and transferred it to the shields.    People have been trying to get me off the computer ever since.

My first computer was a Timex/Sinclair ZX-81 which was actually a nice little machine at the time.   I moved up to a KAYPRO ROBIE shortly before the company Chapter 11 in the mid 80's.   It was the only CP/M o/s computer at the time that used 5.25" 2.6 meg floppies and the entire system was no bigger than a 17" monitor.    I used that thing up until 1991 when I bought a Packard -Bell 386SX 16Mhz with 4Meg of Ram and an 80 Meg HDD at Wal-Mart.    I moved on to an AMD K6-2 400Mhz, 256Meg Ram, 20Gb HDD running Windoze 98. I'm now running an AMD 1.3Gig Duron on a Gigabyte mobo w/512 meg of RAM and I dual boot Windows 98se on a 20 Gb Hard Drive and a 20 gig HDD running Linux-Mandrake 9.1.

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