About

My name is YARON, I am 45 and I am an experienced IT Manager with the knowledge of many different types of computer environments.

I started my computer life by pure chance as I was an athlete, playing tennis, team basketball, running 100m dash runs, and distance jumping in high-school, all I knew was sport. I never even knew what computers are, or what they are needed for.

I guess I was lucky that my parents decided I should participate in a computer learning course, a very basic computer course. There well, I was exposed to computer games and I was immediately hooked. At that time my attention was diverted to computer games, and of course, the platform computer games were running on. Since you need to know how to install the games, you have to learn about the operating system they are running on. So I concentrated in sports and computer games.

Then I just decided that computers interest me more and that my future is in that, so I went to a more technical high-school to study computers. There, at that time I started computers from scratch, from the basics of Assembler, to programming languages that are hardly being used anymore (Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, etc…).

Starting the life of DOS (Disk Operating System) since we were using floppy disks (Diskettes) – hard disks were not yet known. Even though I am not that old, I can proudly say I started computers at the verge of development, and since then computer progress was advancing in huge steps, and in 20 years we are where we are, with more advanced programming languages, computer platforms which are running faster, and are getting smaller and smaller.

I crossed many different network environments from SYS/36 – AS/400 huge IBM servers(compared to the sizes of servers today) which needed a whole room with their own air-condition (to keep them cool) to servers that you can place near your desk.

The network was connected with thick communication cables (Not flexible like your ordinary network cables you know today), and the client computers where dumb terminals, which only showed a screen from the server which of course was black & white or in green textures. The
rough NT network environment, Server 2003 with Active-Directory (sorry about the tech stuff – computer people will understand – later in the website those who are unfamiliar with the tech stuff – might get to know it better) and to a network that includes Linux servers (open-source operating systems).

After giving some of my history and the historical experience I had with computers, I wanted to share some of my experience and assist any of you who might want to start getting to know computers better, eventually this progress we are experiencing combines computers into our day to day life.

Cheers,

YARON.D
IT Manager