You can contact Norse Code Technologies at Norse Code Technologies was originally formed in 1999 as a Software Development Company, hoping to be bought out by Bill Gates III (no luck yet). Meanwhile, Norse Code Technologies has evolved to include backing up music and sound from records, tapes, CDs, 8-track (well..maybe), stick-scratching-rocks (ever popular!), etc. onto CDs. In 2002, Norse Code Technologies expanded into Web Development and it has been the focus of much of its business. This "Head Geek's" interest in computers was spawned in the '70's with the introduction of electronic table tennis and hockey on a black and white TV (well, alright, not really a computer). How far we've come! It was over twenty-five years ago when I was exposed to a computer - a Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III - belonging to my brother as part of a computer correspondence course. It was the latest thing, featuring 4kB RAM (woo-woo!), two 5.25in. floppy disk bays (which were still empty for lack of funds) and a cassette tape player as its storage device. Our favorite game took seven minutes to load! Compare that to today where it can take that amount of time to download a 2 Megabyte file via a phone connection; way larger files using broadband. Later, it was the Atari family of computers and game machines that dominated the scene: the Atari 2600, 5200, and 7800; the Atari 400, 800, 130XE, 600XL, and 800XL (8-bit computers) and ST series (16-bit) including the STe. I taught myself programming first on the TRS-80 and then the Atari's. The PC was a different animal on which to learn programming, but that was the objective. (Just a side note: I still have the Atari 800XL, 130XL, 1040STe and 1040STf computers.) I was travelling one time when I overheard a pair of teens in discussion. One told the other about getting a laptop computer with a DVD-ROM ('They all come with them now!') so that when he travelled, he could watch his DVD movies. Of course, nowadays, you can watch movies on small players like iPods. This woke me up and reminded me of how fast technology has progressed since I was about his age. (Maybe I'll get one soon...)
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