davepolaschek

In junior high school, Dave discovered computers, in the form of a TTY33 connected, via a 110 baud acoustic coupler modem, to the TIES network in Minnesota (later to be absorbed into MECC). One thing led to another, and he ended up retiring from the Big Red A.

Dave wrote and self-published a book on making mead back in the 1990s, when he was brewing regularly. He sold nearly all of the 1000 copies he had printed. He also helped put together the LaserMaster Jargon File, which was published in extremely limited numbers.

Dave lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is part of the United States, at least for now.

In his retirement, Dave cooks, does woodworking, and after a three-year hiatus from computing, now has nine computers within arm's reach on his desk (mostly Raspberry Pi and other small SBCs).