My view on technology

Around 1990 my uncle Ibrahim and my aunt Enriqueta, gave me a great gift, a computer. I don’t remember the brand but it was a Commodore 64 equivalent, not really sure if it was a TRS-80 . The Computer had Floppy Disk and also came with a Tape Recorder, and a couple of games in cassettes. Unfortunately the connection cable for the Tape Recorder was absent, but that was no problem for someone with initiative. After some experiments, and accidentally deletion of a couple of games, I made my own connectivity cable. The advantage of having the cable was that I was able to read and also save information in cassettes. At that time I was already a fan of Robotech , so I start a personal project to create a Robotech Game. For the computer, the development language was BASIC . The Idea was simple, as with the series, the SDF1 will appears somewhere in the orbits of the outer planets and will need to return to earth. That was a good project because I needed to make a lot of research. F...

When I was a kid, around 1978, my father had the greatest job in the world: he was in charge of the Data Center of Vidriera Monterrey , well, we now call it Data Center, I don’t remember how they called back then, I suppose they call it the same. Making some memory, I think the Job at Data Centers has been always too demanding. That’s why he didn’t like telephones at home, as it can be used to bring work to home (also at that time it was not so popular in México), for this reason, Vidriera often sent the company’s driver to pick him up when problems arise at work. My father was a well known person in Vidriera, I remember going with him to the work, especially on weekends, and everybody greet him. We couldn’t walk more than a few steps without waving someone. I remember many times when I got to the Data Center with those big rooms and big computers, tape readers and huge printers. The punched cards were strange sheets of paper and those my father gave us (to my sister and I myself) k...