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No, but I could have been. I've always been very at home with anything to do with computers - my dad was the first on the block to get a home computer (in 1982) despite that he couldn't afford it; very insightful bloke, he is

Besides, I specialise in the not-that-lucrative area of digital audio and computer music

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How DO you manage to keep up with all the research VRap ?

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Talking of critiquing research papers, I really must get back to work. Now!

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Psi was it an Amstrad or are we talking something a bit more useful

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I'm pretty poor at network connectivity. We set up a small LAN in our house so we can all use the same broadband connection (tres geeky ) but it took us a little while to get everything to play!

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EP - the IT industry is a bit odf a mystery to me - 'something in computers?'

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Bune, it was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum - the 48k version (in '82 the 16K version was still available). I grew up on it - fantastic!

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Psi - you techie!

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I'm a secret geek. I hide behind all the Army stuff and the physical fitness, and buzz-cut hair etc, so people don't discover my terrible secret

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I read the Daily Mail like everyone else does, Bune - that keeps me up to date :-D

It would be impossible to keep up with all the research, but a lot of what's published, even in supposedly serious journals, is dross, and specialists in each area are pretty good at sifting out the nuggets of gold and presenting them in a manner that the likes of me can understand.

And I've got a big incentive in the form of a regular commitment to producing a batch of reviews to make things easier for other GPs.

The fact that I still find medicine fascinating helps a lot.

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my first exposure to computers was an Amstrad - glorified wp really - then about 5-6 years ago did a course and just was blown away by what they could do - then worked somwhere with internet access and that was me gone!

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definitely helps alot!

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crikey EP - by the time of my GCSE I'd been using PCs for about 4 years and other computers since I was 3!

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Iquite envy kids who grow up communications technology savvy - im not an oldster but some ofit is a little beyond me - MP3 and didgital music for example

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is the industry still in a growth phase?

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Almost four years ago a nice but ineffectual educational psychologist told us that we were the only family in the world that still didn't have a computer at home.

Mind you, he also turned up his nose at the idea of Kevin having Asperger syndrome even when we presented it to him on a plate, and relieved us of two hundred and something quid for so doing.

We finally got a home PC less than two years ago.

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I was probably in the very first generation to grow up IT-savvy. Even in my primary school hardly anyone else had a home computer - they were expensive! It wasn't til high school that things like word processed assignments, etc, started to happen.

Workign at an ISP EP - bet you downloaded lots of por.. er.. stuff

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yes EP - but I want to KNOW more - im eternally curious!

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When I was in my last year at school, my school got its first computer. All we were ever allowed to do was play a game called "Nim" which involved stacks of pretend coins.

I never had Space Invaders either.