Tim Mityok
 I have been a HUGE Mac Fan since the first 512ke showed up at my parents business. Before that it was an Apple IIe clone (Franklin, from SEARS) which still runs! I have always wanted to be a programmer and am now taking steps to make that a reality with my ventures into Mac OS Software development. I am married and have one 2 year old daughter and another daughter on the way due at the end of April. My wife and I met online in IRC - yes really - and we ended up getting married in Las Vegas at the same chapel that Michael Jordan was married in called "A Little White Chapel." |
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| How did you personally get into using the Macintosh family of computers? | I was often at my parents business after school and there was a Mac sitting there in the office begging to be used. I used MacPaint quite a bit and made several floppy disks full of stuff. In Junior High our computer lab's Apple IIes were replaced with Mac Plus models. I took the intro computer class, then became teachers aide for the same class and I have never looked back. | |
| Status: | I like to think I am an Evangelist preaching the cause at CompUSA (being paid or not), definately a User and something of a visonary in the Mac arena. | |
First Mac:
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512ke which was upgraded to a Mac Plus including having SCSI and an internal fan. It used a 45 meg hard disk (it was huge at the time) and ran System 6.0.5, then 6.0.8 for a long time. I still have it and if I can get it plugged together again it will surely boot right up. | |
Current Mac:
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Almost embarrassing to say, but a 6100/60 thats running OS 8.5.1 w/40 megs. RAM, 1.2 gig. HD and 8x Apple CD ROM. | |
| When did you get your first modem? | About the middle of 1993, it was a Hayes 2400 baud. | |
| Who did you call first? | Local Bulletin boards using White Knight software. My favorite was the Route 66 BBS somewhere in Phoenix. | |
| Present Occupation: | General Manager of a plastics manufacturing company and President/Lead Lackey for Public Access Software both of which will be merging into one company sometime this year to produce Mac-centric products. | |
| Claim to Fame: | MacPack Script Suite, the BEST Script Suite for Ircle IMHO. | |
| Dream Job: | Working out of an office in the finished basement (with bar-size pool table and wetbar) of my paid-for home an average of 4 hours per day for my own company. |
| Not So Random Thoughts... | |||
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| Was there ever a time in your life that you had to "Think Different?" What was the situation and what did you do? | |||
| Meeting someone online and then falling in love and being 1400 miles apart. Makes you definately think different about relationships and planning your future. | |||
| How has using the Macintosh computer changed your life? | |||
| It has finally provided a career, well I'm working on it, that I am happy to do and will be content with for the foreseeable future. I might even make some money off it. | |||
| What is the weirdest thing in your office right now? | |||
| B&W Stuido promo/press kit photo from "The Outsiders" movie, got it at a thrift store for about $2. | |||
| My passions are: | |||
| Movies, in the theatre-kind. Being a father. | |||
| If you could have dinner with one person dead or alive who would that person be and what would you ask them? | |||
| Gene Rodenberry. "I have some ideas for Star Trek episodes, interested?" | |||
| Do you play a musical instrument and/or are you in a band? | |||
| I played the guitar for a little while and even have an electric/accoustic that has been appraised at $450 that just kind of sits in the corner looking nice. | |||
| When I grow up I want to be: | |||
| Financially secure with a Mac-centric business producing quality, superior products for the Mac OS platform. | |||
| The question never asked: | |||
| Why in the world didn't anyone sue Microsoft for copying the Mac OS sooner than they did (and failed)? |
| Just The Facts, Please... | ||||
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| Biographical Tidbits: | I am interested in Photography (camera and darkroom), electronics, programming, scripting, reading anything in sight. I had started a cable TV show called "What Were You Expecting" but the first episode was stolen along with my parents video camera and the second "first" episode never aired and prolly never will. | Education: | Largely self-taught in all areas of expertise, no formal training on anything beyond simple classes in high school. I read a lot, maybe that helps. | |
| Location at Birth: | Phoeniz, Arizona. | Current Location: | Mesa, Arizona. | |
| Where you've been in between: |
Lived in Tennessee during 1997, but I am better now. | Astrological Sign: | Sagittarius | |
| Available? | Married, sorry ladies. | Chat Nick: | WarDawg (long story) | |
| Favorite Books: | Anything Stephen Kind, esp. IT and the Gunslinger series, The Stand is right under IT for me. | Favorite Music or Band: | Metallica and White Zombie currently, also my friends band "Freudian Slip" who have since moved on to other pursuits. | |
| Favorite Food: | Italian. | Cat or Dog Person: | Both, probably closer to cats since they are more mellow and somewhat lower maintenance. | |
| Tim's Personal Web Site | |
| Tim's Professional Web Site | |
| Favorite Web Site: | Mackido |
| Favorite Color imac: |  GRAPE GRAPE GRAPE (PURPLE)!!!. |
| "Knowledge is ammunition, arm yourself!" | |
Created Sunday, March 14, 1999; Edited: