EPR are the initials of Eric-Paul Rebel.
At the age of 12 I first saw a computer in action. Since that moment I wanted to have one too. A few years later I could buy a TI 57 programmable calculator. It was the first time I felt I wrote real software.
In 1982, I could buy my first real computer: a TI 99/4A. I have been programming it in almost every language I got access to. But I have spent most time programming it in the TMS 9900 assembly language. It is the only computer in which I have been using a soldering iron many times.
As a student I learned using a Pr1me computer. Using it was fun until I got the chance writing software for the Macintosh using a development system on a Lisa.
Between 1986 and 1994 I have been developing software for the Macintosh professionally.
In 1994, I touched an Intel based computer for the first time.
It was no fun using it with a GUI called Windows 3.11,
it became no fun after upgrading to Windows NT,
and it still was no fun after downgrading to Windows 95.
In 1996, I started developing cross-platform software, using a PowerMac 7300/200 and some kind of Pentium PC.
Nowadays, I spend most of my time designing en documenting software, mostly web based solutions.
I started using the Internet in December 1994, after I bought a Macintosh Performa 630. Until then, I owned a Macintosh Portable, which was not capable running any Internet software.
I started exploring the Internet with Gopher client software (I am still wondering why).
These days, I like all that nice Macintosh software that is available via anonymous ftp,
and like using the web (but hate all those pictures that do not add any information).
Until now, I never took a look at news groups.
In May 1996 I built my first web pages (this is one of them).
Six years later, I finally found time to redesign these pages.
My interests are in the audio/video and communication areas, but also in calendars. Take a look at my site, and you know what I mean.