Tony Ho, our Computer Historian

On the TIPS monthly home page, if you move your mouse over the banner at the upper left, you are treated to a historical short about the picture there. Beginning with the May 2003 issue of TIPS, that historical piece was the responsibility of Henry Clay High School STLP member Tony Ho. From the Henry Clay STLP web pages...

Tony (far left) and the Henry Clay STLP

"I was around 6, when I inherited my first PC (a 386) from my grandpa. It was a great thing, and the only thing that can compare to it in our house was our TV. Not really into watching people do stuff on TV, I had started to tinker around with the PC. Setting the DMA Channels and I/O Addresses for the Sound Blaster 16 was really fun. Ever since then I inherited more and more powerful computers and learned how to use them. I learned about the inner-workings of the computer and it really amazed me that something like this is really possible. Things started to really lift off when I inherited my first Pentium-based Computer that was running Windows 95. At first I didn't really like 95 and I really despised it. I was a lot more used to 3.1, but as time progresses I begin to love it. Sooner or later as I got into the higher-level education that was provided to me, and the computer was a lot more productive then ever. I started making reports, drawings all kinds of things for school on it. Now I depend on it for school as I use it to create commercial-quality reports and projects...." (Full text...)