Hi. I'm Dan. I live in Hillsdale, New Jersey with my wife and 3 children. With three other doctors I have a Pediatric practice in Westwood, although we were originally in Hillsdale too.

My interest in computers dates back to my first day of college in 1973 when I found the computer center at Brandeis University. Besides more academic pursuits were the hours spent at the PDP-10's teletype fighting Klingons in Star Trek or exploring the Colossal Caves in Adventure (You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building...). I even got to visit MIT's Project Mac computer lab where I saw the original Spacewar game on a little round CRT screen.

I attended UMDNJ  New Jersey Medical School during which time, had the home computer revolution begun, I would have been too busy to notice. However, it waited until I was a Resident (no big improvement timewise, really) with the advent of the Commodore VIC-20. I passed that up and the popular Commodore 64 in favor of an Atari 800. Many years later I became a customer of that company at last with the purchase of a Commodore Amiga 500.

Today I still occasionally use that computer's replacement, an Amiga 3000 . Commodore has come and gone but the intellectual properties were eventually bought by Gateway!  My first "PC" was  a Gateway P5-90 with an Ensoniq Soundcape audio card.   Both computers were connected to switchboxes and shared  a SupraFaxModem288 and a HP550C Deskjet printer.  A number of years ago I won a Jaz Drive . at PC Expo in New York City.

Subsequently I had a Gateway PIII-600 with DVD, CD-RW, and a TV tuner card.  I had a Visioneer 7600 scanner and an Epson 860 printer (which replaced a Canon BJC 5000 .)

After that I had been using a Dell .  It had 400MB of internal and 500MB of external storage , the TV tuner (well, maybe it's a new one), a newer scanner, a Pinnacle Moviebox, and assorted other doodads. Printers come and go, the lastest is the third in a series of HP all-in-ones.

As of 1/07 I upgraded to a Dell XPS Quad core with 4MB ram and a terabyte of storage.    The latest toy:  Broke down and got an iPhone 3G!

Then there is the home network. The old Dell on my wife's desk, another desktop elsewhere and laptops seemingly in each room. About 7 PCs in total, more at times, some on ethernet, most wireless.

... and then there is the Amiga 3000. Still works, sort of.

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