I started with computer programming by learning Basic and then Machine Language programming on a TRS-80 Model I starting in 1979. Some of my accomplishments in that arena were a complete operating system of my own, a tactical forward observer training program, a menu system (later known as Gmenu or Vmenu), a OS Shell (later known as Auto or Valet) and a few games.
In 1981, I picked up Cobol programming through the Army. From 1982 through 1986, I taught IBM DOS-E (mainframe) internals and debugging, Cobol Programming, Basic Programming, Systems Analysis and Design, GCOS (honeywell) and picked up IBM (mainframe) and GCOS (honeywell) Assembler Language programming. I also taught some of the above courses for University of Maryland and City Colleges of Chicago (overseas).
In 1986, I started learning about IBM PC’s and MS-Dos. I developed a few assembler language programs based on older TRS-80 programs such as Auto (PC Valet) and Gmenu (PC V-Menu ). I also learned C, Pascal and FORTRAN around this time and released a few shareware games written in C and Pascal.
