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and Professional Hacker-Type Dude!
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IN THE BEGINNING, there was dumb virtue, a terminal emulator I started to hack out in July 1984 using the amazing Macintosh 128K computer my mother Jean Saunders had most graciously seen to outfit me with as a gift, and access to a VAX 750 running BSD 4.2 UNIX - courteously granted to me through the kindness of the management at Cornell University's Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics.
PLEASE NOTE: During my career as a programmer, I was smoking pot pretty much every day, generally starting off in the morning? -
This is not as unusual as one might think.
- up until I made the tragic mistake of going on Prozac (and later Trazodone 'to aid in sleep') as a potential substitute for
cannabis in the year 1996, and came under the "management" of "experts" in "mental health" [cue eyeroll].
dumb virtue - SOURCE CODE ARCHIVE - ZIP 143KB
dumb virtue - On-Line Documentation - PDF 44KB
dumb virtue - SOURCE CODE - PDF 117MB (scanned)
In 1985 I was hired by Dick Cogger, Assistant for Network Planning and Development to Vice-Provost for Computer Services Ken King, to work on developing a Macintosh terminal emulator specific to Cornell's internal requirements, including an incredibly fast emulation of the IBM 3278-2; I wound up working at Cornell for 8 1/2 years on the applications that were to become COMET - the "COrnell Macintosh Emulator of Terminals" - in 1990, along with other network programming projects and providing backline support for Cornell's TCP/IP networking endeavors as they regarded the Macintosh, MacTCP, EZ-Remote - Cornell's Internet Dialup service, inaugurated in 1992 - "and so on and so forth," because the work of a network systems programmer is never done!
My business card ca. 1992
and name tag(s) from CIT Expo Fall '93
(because the gals in the telephony department loved me.-)
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I left Cornell in early 1994, despite the offer of a raise from Network Resources Director Dave Lambert, to sign up with Millennium Computer Corporation in Rochester implementing a Secure Single Sign-On system for the state of Michigan as a subcontractor to IBM. I decided to leave Millennium in August 1994 in large part because my immediate boss and I had experienced what the President of Millennium, Jonathan Sacks, characterized as a "personality conflict" to my bosses at Cornell when he volunteered to act as an intermediary in billing Cornell $45/hr for my services, but I decided to start up my own firm and sought successfully to license the source code to COMET as databeast, Inc. - "it had to be a corporation, why? 'just because!'" - Cornell preferred it that way!
bonze blayk - coder
bonze blayk - debugger
bonze blayk - entrepreneur
My business card, ca. 1995
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DATACOMET IS:
121,228 lines of CODE
38,389 lines of header file definitions
~ 172 KB of dialog resources
~ 1 MB of custom TrueType/bitmap font resources
~ 50 pages of hyper-linked embedded documentation
AND 4 lines of poetry:
"Felicity is everywhere...
yet she's not a thing to be lightly grasped;
For here you'd hold, not the name of a rose,
but a fragile-thorny flower-asp..."
-- bonze
From "About dataComet ", first included in the
"About COMET " text for Comet 3.1.1 in 1992.
Updated 8/4/11, 9/15/11, 2/28/14, 1/2/15, 1/25/16, 5/6/16, 6/13/16, 6/1/18, 2/22/19, 4/18/22, 9/26/22, 5/22/23, 7/23/23, 7/28/23