I have my summer 1978 – Now 2019 software development legacy to safeguard. I own the copyrights on 99+% of the open source software I created in my Commodore Amiga 2000 and Word-Wide-Web computer experience on MindSpring.com (December 1995 – ?), EarthLink.com (? – 2011?), AT&T (2011 – 2013), and Spectrum.com (February 14, 2014 – Now). I made paper copies of my May 1988 to sometime in the mid-1990s open source software in mainly Modual-2 for Chairperson Professor Doctor Fay Adcock Riddle, PhD (only showing her terminal degree, she has many degrees as me or more than me). She finally became exasperated and inundated with computer program paper from me and she was forced to pitch out or recycle my daisy wheel printer paper. I think Professor Carlisle at Auburn University had a tape reel from the Data General Eclipse line of minicomputer at LaGrange College containing among other software, computer code that I generated in my epoch summer 1978 to 1987. That code was probably given to Professor Carlisle by Professor Kenneth Cooper, PhD, etc.
I am in a dilemma about my software development legacy. Store it on flash drives (USB solid state drives) and place the drives in a bank’s safety deposit box or use Apple’s iCloud and/or Microsoft’s OneDrive. Cloud storage costs money also and is ephemeral. I have a 3.5” floppy drive that connects to a USB computer port. That way I can transfer my legacy 1995 – 2005 floppies to a longer-lived media. I have lots of CDs and DVDs also that need archiving. The archival process is going to arduous and long in terms of copying times.
Author: jamespatewilliamsjr
My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.
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