Zach Real Name:  Zach Age:  22 Resides:  Bloomington, Indiana Occupation:  Preschool Teacher

Favourite websites:
www.dosgames.com

Favourite application, game, and program of all time:
Rags to Riches (C64)
 
What are you playing and working on  right now:
A number of things right now, a classic car, a light sensing robot. I'm reading quite a bit on mechanical aided walking.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
I have a Casio VL Tone pocket synth as my current backround.

What's so special about your computer:
Hmmm I have a net of over 100 monkies all named after various computer and peripheral brand names. You should see Wang!

How many computers do you have:
Hold on to your Bonnette Betty! I have in my possesion:
3 C64 computers, all working, one traditional in the box with original hardware, one slightly modified one with an IDE64 and a 10 gig harddrive.
Also a *cough cough wink wink* Golden C-64 (You junkies know what it is) A Commodore SX-64 portable commodore; Compaq luggables, one stock and one pimped with a hard card, ram expansion and a sound card and a 9600 baud modem, WOO!
3 Compaq proliant server... two 1400s and one 5000. They all run some kind of RAID system and is complimented by a SCSI drive array! Oh the glory, (and the heat!!) One Mac Mini (It's like singing in the shower, we don't talk about it but you know we all do it..) A mutt that I Video Edit on.
Two Toshiba Laptops vintage 1984 I believe they're 8088s both with 1200 baud modems and nettamer. Dos and Internet, what a combo!!!!
I also have 4 NESes stacked up and over 200 games (Not a computer technically but with the right homebrew roms and a chip burner, who kows ;)

Geekiest moment of your life:
The time that a Powered by Cyrix sticker made me laugh histerically in a group of non geeks, I tried to explain but it was really lost on them, y'know?
 
When did you first realize you were a geek:
When I attempted to meet people my own age when I was 11 or 12 and opened with, "So what abouit them abandoning those 720k disks?"

If I was a program I'd be:
I would have to be a copy of Alien Phobia, I'm fast, loud and can make you grit your teeth and yell obscenities. (Oh but I'd be the dirty 3m disk that's been passed around 93' You'd swear all the magnets would of killed me by now but here I am.

What is your favourite quote:
"This is a standard UNIX system"  -Jurassic Park (How many ten year old girls can gain access to your futuristic genetic fun park? Geeze if that didn't get they're security officer fired then I don't know what did, well if could of been the gigantic T-Rex eating people.)
 

Zach, who has taught many a pre-schooler the many evolutions of the Intel processor. Zach says that "Nothing compares to the satisfaction of having asmall child look at you and say, ' 8088, 8086, 286, 386, 486, Pentium 1, Pro, 2,3, 4' (Well you get the picture, it's a blast).

Zach would like you to revel in sheer geekieness by checking out: www.packetsniffers.org