I am a musical hobbyist at playing instruments not a seasoned professional musician. I guess I could have been a professional guitarist had I not been so insane in my youth. My father bought me a 1964 Gibson SG Standard and Fender Bandmaster amplifier from George G. Daniel for $500. The guitar and amp were my graduation present from high school when I was 17 years old. Within a year I had broken the neck of the guitar in a fit of rage at my father. See I had pawned the amplifier to get money to cover a drug debt and my dad refused to get the amp out of the Columbus pawn shop. The guitar was half-assed repaired by an Atlanta luthier using my dad’s money sometime in the 1970s, but its play ability was not that great. I finally sold the guitar back to George for about $1500 in the era 2009 to 2011. See George is very generous with his hard-earned money.
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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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