If people didn't know any better they might say that my blood consists of chips and diodes, transistors and resistors, . I was breathing, eating, tinkering, and manipulating computers long before many youngsters today. You see I began my trek when I was approximately 10 years old. That would put my beginning with computers in the ripe old year of 1965. That's right. Computers were only about 15 years old by then, just a little older than myself, and so most of the people using computers were, as they say, my elders. How many of the faculty in my current computer science department can say that the very first computer they laid their hands on when an IBM 360/65, an RCA Model 70, and an IBM 1130. I would wager a bet that few would ever be able to tell you anything about these computers. You see, I was so interested in computers that I would beg, do menial tasks, and just plain look like a puppy to have the chance to get near and USE one of these behemoths. And use them I did. 10 years old would place me in middle school. I went to a school for especially talented students named Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School and Masterman was the first school to enter the computer age in Philadelphia. The school system of Philadelphia was way ahead of its time on a number of fronts. They were they first to buy a computer for one classroom at Masterman. They were the first to give this school access to a time sharing computer. And they were the first to implement a computer-based instruction system to teach reading and simple math skills. An actual PhD was in charge of all of this. One Dr. Altschuler who encouraged kids to become involved with computers. While I was reading a book about Fortran IV he tried to help but he did not understand what the things in the book meant sometimes. Not his fault. He was never exposed to FORTRAN and the like. Near the end of my stay at Masterman. the School System of Philadelphia switched its computer system to a newer HP 2000B. This was a so-called mini-computer that could support many students and many schools at the same time. It had a much better version of BASIC (HP BASIC), and was much more efficient. On this machine I wrote an award winning program that translated English to French and French to English. This brief biography scratches the surface of over 40 years as a computer scientist and information technologist. More than 20 of those years have been spent as a teacher.