Name: Druce Macfarlane Location: San Mateo, California Hi, my name is Druce, and I am a Gadgetoholic. It all started shortly after High School, when I had some extra spending money, and decided to spend it on computers. All kinds of computers. I had everything from a home made PC, to a CP/M-based S100 system [...]
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Name: Dave Hawkins Location: Reading, UK I’ve always been interested in gadgets of all types and have worked my way through a wide range of personal organizers, PCs and communications devices in the past. Because of my particular circumstances I guess my requirements are slightly different from some people. During the day I work for [...]
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Name: Curtis Hinson Location: Texas, USA I just read through a few of your Gadgeteer profiles and thought I fit your profile. My first meetings with gadgets were back in the middle 80s when my family got a Tandy computer with an 8088 in it. I had some experience with electronics and programming as a [...]
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Name: Andrew N Location: Australia I�m 15, and a student in Australia. I have a fairly good collection of gadgets and computer hardware. My parents are programmers, so we have a lot of computers around the house. Below is a pic of my desk, which as you can see is fairly cluttered. My first interest [...]
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Name: Evan Koblentz Location: New Jersey I’m 29, live in New Jersey, and I write about big-business computing for a living (mostly for trade magazines.) I don’t have the most gadgets or the priciest gadgets, just some of the coolest ones. On the surface, my gadgets aren’t mind-blowing. The PDA I use everyday is a [...]
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Name: Drew Golden Location: Plano, Texas Where did it all begin? Well, I was a freshmen in High School when I was first introduced to the TRS-80 Mod III. I was intrigued, and signed up for a summer course in Basic. I remember the class and yellow book entitled Basic Basic – and the follow [...]
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Name: Justin Noland Location: Vancouver, Washington When I noticed that Frankie Rossi was the youngest (I think) Gadgeteer that has been featured (age 15) I thought ‘Hey, other geek teens do exist!’ And I figured that if he could make it, I might be able to too. I am 14, and live in Vancouver, Washington. [...]
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Name: Roeland Krul Location: The Netherlands After having seen some past "featured Gadgeteers" the feeling "Hey, I can do better than that!" really creapt up to me ) My name is Roeland Krul and I live in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Years ago, in the spring of 1999, I saw a friend of mine play around [...]
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Name: Juan Puchalski Location: Venezuela, South America My story as a gadgeteer is quite unlike the usual story that says I have ten gazillion gadgets in every drawer of my house, and then some. Unfortunately I live in Venezuela, South America, and the wages are usually not enough to cover the basics, let alone gadget [...]
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Name: Tammi Hewlett Location: Canada I thought I would write to boost the young female representation among fellow gadgeteers! I have been a faithful visitor of the site now for almost two years and will not purchase a thing unless I’ve checked out what “the girls” have to say. I mean, who can do without the [...]
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Name: Mark Rosengarten Location: New York They don’t call me "The Gadget Man" for nothing! It seems to my co-workers that I come in to work every week with some new gadget. I am the person the creators of Ebay had in mind. I buy, use, get bored and move on. I am a chemistry [...]
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Name: Francis Lee Location: Boston, MA Ever since the Christmas of 1994, when I received my first computer as a present I’ve been in love since. I remember how excited I was when I plugged in all the plugs for my new IBM Aptiva PC. Then finally ripping open the Microsoft Windows packaging that contained [...]
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Name: Mounir Bashour, MD, CM, FRCSC, FACS , DIP ABO, ASOPRS Location: Montreal and Toronto Canada I cannot remember any time not using gadgets. Gaming consoles As far as I can remember, my first game console was the Atari bought by my beloved visionary Aquarian grandfather Shukri Shamamas. I also had both Intellivision consoles from [...]
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Name: Eric F. Schetley Location: Pittsburg, PA So what makes me think I’ve got what it takes to be a Gadgeteer? Well, I do read this site… The sarcastic geek typing this is Eric Schetley, an overgrown boy who loves his toys. I’m a PC Support Specialist at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. [...]
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Name: Carin van Geijtenbeek Location: The Netherlands My name is Carin van Geijtenbeek. I live in Utrecht, The Netherlands and I am 26 years old. I am one of those rare female computer- and gadgets freaks. In 2001, I bought my first Palm, a IIIxe, later followed by a m505. Now I have a Palm [...]
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Name: Sammy McLoughlin Location: UK My name is Sammy McLoughlin, I am 27, Irish and share my time between New York and Manchester, UK. I run my own PR business and so obviously need to be organised and so I depend on a PDA to assist. I have been a PDA Addict since I first [...]
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Name: Wayne E. Yang Location: New York You could say that I have been a collector of keyboards. No matter how much or how little money I have had, I have been prone to buy devices on which you can type, which should not be so much of a surprise when you consider that I [...]
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Name: Henry Kong Location: Singapore I guess I have always been attracted to gadgets. Gaming consoles As far as I can remember, my first game console was a B&W made-in-Hong Kong pong machine that plugs into the TV. This was followed by the Atari VCS 2600, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, MegaDrive and a host of other [...]
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Name: Vic Icasas Location: Manila, Philippines Hi there! My name is Vic Icasas and I’m from Manila, in the Philippines. I’m 30 years old. In my line of work (and play), I get to fool around with tons of cool gadgets on a daily basis, and I’m not even a gadget reviewer. I’m a professional [...]
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Name: Anne Willis Location: Charlotte, NC Let me first say that writing about myself was never a strong point for me and I would normally not send anything like this in but all the people I work with, and that I have known for a while know that I am truly a Gadgeteer. It started [...]
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