About me

Randall Semeiks in January, 2001

Biographical Information

I am 16 years old, and currently live in Upstate New York (USA). When I'm not in school or at work, (I work for a PA/concert speaker manufacturing company) I try to enjoy a wide variety of hobbies.

Hobbies
- Old Iron - This remains to be my number one hobby, as far as interests go, I only wish I had more time for it.
- DJing - Practice makes perfect. I am becoming a decent progressive trance DJ. Call me DJ Zero
- Going Online - Chatting with friends, reading SEL mail, looking at other old iron on the web.
- Collecting old paper work (magazines, brochures) and other antiques that go along with old iron.
- Metal fabrication - I'm building up my tools. I now have an oxy-acetylene torch/tank set, gasoline powered AC arc welder/generator, Wards Powercraft metal lathe (more info to come), as well as a 12-Ton shop press and other tools.
- Relaxing - Still one of my big hobbies, however I am trying to keep busy - and between work and school, there is a lot to do!

Most of my free time is spent on my computer. Until January, 2000 I was using a homebuilt Pentium 100, with 16 megs of ram and a terrible 14 or 15 inch monitor. It got me by, but I wasn't happy with it.

In January, 2000, I was fortunate enough to be able to get a new computer system.

Computer
- IBM Aptiva
- AMD Athlon 550MHz processor
- 96 megs of RAM

ATI All-in-Wonder 16 meg AGP video card (Nice card, has A/V and S-Video (digital) in and out. Good for video capturing or making movies. Also has Co-ax in for watching TV on the computer. Highly recommended card!)
Hitachi 6x DVD-ROM drive
Sony 4x4x24 CD-RW drive
20gig IDE hard drive

Eventually I would like to convert this system to full SCSI, however right now with IDE devices being as cheap as they are, my money seems to be better spent there.

How did I create this webpage? Well, I've been meaning to try out some of those "Easy" webpage creators like MS Frontpage, but so far I havn't. I learned to write raw HTML from the beginning, and that's what I'm most comfortable with. Most of this HTML was written using PICO on my ISP's telnet/shell machine, over the telnet program that comes with Windows. Some of it was also written in Notepad.

Randall Semeiks in January, 2001

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Last updated 01/28/01 by Randall Semeiks