Description: Chuck Harper offers consulting services for web software engineering and development, desktop support, digital video editing, and database development using the over twenty years experience gained while working for companies like 20th Century Fox, Pathway Capital Management, AEG Worldwide, AXS Ticketing and Shock Media Group.
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In 1984 my father purchased an Apple IIe computer with a monochrome monitor and a dot matrix printer. On that computer I learned to write programs in Apple BASIC, Logo, and did simple animation in Brøderbund Fantavision. I played King’s Quest, Karateka, Montezuma’s Revenge and Project Space Station games and even copied a version of Snake out of a BYTE magazine.
In 1994 I purchased my first Apple Macintosh computer; a Quadra 610 DOS Compatible (only 25,000 were ever manufactured). This computer had a second, Intel 486SX, CPU which allowed you run MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 on the same hardware as Mac OS 7.1. The DOS Compatiblity card could have it’s own RAM card or share the RAM on the Macintosh logic board. (This was 1994 when the rule of thumb was $100 a megabyte (MB) for buying RAM.) Not having an extra $800 I opted to share the RAM on the Mac; this setting was stor
In August 1995 I interviewed with Sonnet Technology (a leading manufacturer of Macintosh upgrades). In the interview the CEO, Robert Farnsworth, asked me how to reset the PRAM. I told him and he offered me a job. He later said I was the only candidate he interviewed, out of dozens, who could answer that question. As the Technical Support Manager at Sonnet I answered customer support phone calls, approved warranty exchanges and returns, and authored installation instructions and technical documentation. In 1