| Steve first heard about Alamo PC when he received a card from Delphi inviting him to a monthly General Meeting where they were making a presentation. Steve continued to attend three or four more General Meetings, (won a free copy of Quicken 2000!), and decided to join the organization.
Steve has spent many hours volunteering around Alamo PC, helping with the move to Crossroads Mall, constructing the walls for the classrooms and helping with the wiring for the two labs (he is a career Electrician) and the cabling for the computers. In addition, he have helped with various Study Groups including Quicken, Access and CorelDraw. He is the instructor for the basic CorelDraw class and Co-lead the advanced CorelDRAW class. He also serves on the Board of Directors.
Steve spent 20 years in the Air Force, with 17.3 of those years spent overseas. He has lived in Panama, Okinawa, and Japan. He worked in the career field of Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory where he calibrated and repaired many types of equipment.
After retiring, the family moved to San Antonio in August 1993 to become a "Texas Tech" family (excuse my play on words).
He became interested in computers when a friends built a TRS 80 ("Trash 80") from scratch, so he decided to buy a 386 during one of my trips to Singapore. He then bought WordStar 7.0, QuatroPro, and Paradox to learn to use some programs. His method for learning new software is somewhat pragmatic but effective: He creates and works on a project in order to learn the software. For example, one project was placing all San Antonio streets into a database (Paradox) and then accessing them for pinpointing locations. He calls projects like these, a labor of love.
Steve considers Alamo PC to be a great opportunity for learning about computers and even a greater opportunity for meeting others with similar interests.
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