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Jurgen is an Analyst/programmer in financial company (Y2K and 
Euro).
He became interested in microprocessors 18 years ago, when my eyes saw 
the TRS-80 in the 
Tandy (Radio Shack) catalog.
I read all I could find about microprocessors, which was 
then mostly confined to 8080/8088/Z80. The only thing he could do back 
then was write 
programs in assembler without even having a computer.
When he was 18, he gathered enough money to buy his first computer, 
the Sinclair ZX 
Spectrum. He studied electronics and learned programming mostly
on his own. He worked with 
several languages (C, C++, xBase/Clipper, Cobol, FORTH) and several 
different systems in 
different areas: programming of test equipment, single- and 
multi-user databases in 
quality control and customer support, and PLCs in an aluminium 
foundry/milling factory.