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Digital Jungle: Who

Digital Jungle is the electronic alter ego of Michael 'Mickey' Sattler, seen here at Fly Hot Springs at the 1997 Burning Man festival.

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I was born in Manhattan, spent my childhood in Holland (travelling around Europe), went to high school in New Jersey, attended Boston University, and then moved out to San Francisco.

manhattan   amsterdam   san francisco  

I was hooked on computing in the days of the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I, although I started programming a year later. The late seventies found me typing BASIC code on a Korean War surplus Teletype model 33, where it was blasted through a 30 baud acoustic coupler to a remote timesharing mainframe. (I stored my program on paper tape encoded in, if memory serves, Baudot code, a five-bit predecessor to ASCII.)

I entered Boston University with an undeclared major, and I took a wide variety of classes in my freshman year. Physics, biology, Greek and Roman archeology, and the calculus. My academic advisor, Dr Harvey Deitel, convinced me to take a graduate-level Pascal class class, three semesters in one. (Of course he didn't mention that it was accelerated. It turned out he needed warm bodies in the class so it wouldn't be cancelled. I thrived, once I figured out iteration. At the end of the class "Doctor Doubleknit" stood up and declared me the class geek. From there nothing could stop me! :-)

I fell in with a bad crowd and learned IBM System 360 Assembly Language. From there it was just a short time until I started work for an MIT spin-off hardware shop in New Hampshire. Years later, on the west coast, the SCUBA instructor for whom I was divemastering explained how consulting worked for him. From that point on I followed his path.

My résumé shows some of my clients and accomplishments.

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The End.

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