Scott Bittick
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| How did you personally get into using the Macintosh family of computers? |
I was hired to work for an Apple Dealer for Sales and Service of Apple II's. When the MacPlus arrived at our store I played with it and was hoplessly hooked. Within 6 months I was providing pre-Sales assistance and Tech Support for Mac's. | |
First Mac:
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First one I purchased was an SE/30 on an Apple program at the Dealer I worked for, but I had a Plus and SE sitting on my desk at work before that... | |
Current Mac:
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PowerTower Pro (Power Computing) 604e/233 Mhz (its almost a G3 ;-) | |
| When did you get your first modem? | I first used a modem while working for the same Apple dealer, but did not purchase one for home use until 1992. | |
| Who did you call first? | Apple Hideaway a BBS first run off an Apple II, then a Mac... | |
| Present Occupation: | Information/Techology Manager. | |
| Claim to Fame: | Everyone who knows me knows I drive a Truck with the license plate CPUGURU - CPU GURU get it? | |
| Dream Job: | Probably doing what I'm doing now. |
| Not So Random Thoughts... | |||
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| How has using the Macintosh computer changed your life? | |||
| Lets just say it compliments my life ;-) | |||
| What is the weirdest thing in your office right now? | |||
| When I started working at this "Publishing Company" one of the first things I noticed were how few Mac's they had (only 8 out of 35 total computers). While most other Publishing Companies that I had visited or read about were predominately Mac. Were still low compared to other Publishing companies at 21/46, but I'm working on it ;-) | |||
| My Passions are: | |||
| Technology and information on new Technologies. | |||
| If you could have dinner with one person dead or alive who would that person be and what would you ask them? | |||
| Ben Bova - would ask him where he got the ideas on some of his books. | |||
| Do you play a musical instrument and/or are you in a band? | |||
| Guitar currenly, used to play Trumpet. |
| Just The Facts, Please... | ||||
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| Biographical Tidbits: | See my web site. | Education: | B.A. from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa | |
| Location at Birth: | Des Moines, Iowa (Methodist Hospital). | Current Location: | Des Moines, Iowa. | |
| Where you've been in between: |
Califonia (Bakersfield, Fremont and little towns down the coast, my favorite was Santa Barbra), Nebraska (Fremont, Omaha & Grand Island), Kansas/Missouri (Kansas City) Iowa (Des Moines and many other places in this state). Also have visited MN, WI, IL (Chicago), KY, IN, OH, FL, TX, AZ, CO, NV, MX, and Washington D.C. | Astrological Sign: | Scorpio | |
| Available? | No, because I'm not looking. (ah Single again, Divorced since 89, father of two children). | Chat Nick: | Talk City: Voyager, TCCVoyager | |
| Favorite Books: | Science Fiction -Authors include Asimov, Carl Sagan, Ben Bova & A. Clark. | Favorite Music or Band: | Rock, Jazz, Classical and Folk. Bands - Anything but Country & Western (ACK!) | |
| Favorite Food: | Pork Chops | Cat or Dog Person: | Raised with Cats, now own a Dog (go figure). | |
| Scott's Personal Web Site | |
| Scott's Professional Web Site is under development. | |
| Favorite Web Site: | Yahoo, Zdnet/ZDNN , Macintouch - (Three way tie?) |
| 1) There is no such thing as a Stupid Question, only the one that does NOT get asked! 2) On the Internet - its a "Whole New World". |
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Created Sunday, September 13, 1998; Edited: 2/21/99