Hi! My name is José Júlio Pereira da Silva, I'm 20 years old (my birth date is 08/01/81, don't forget your present! ;) ). I live in V.N.Gaia, south of Porto, in Portugal.     I am currently studying Electronics And Computers in Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), 1st Year.

    Here's some of my computers history...
    I started with a Timex, 1st only playing games, then making programs, not quite usefull, but that was a start... :).
    A long time ago, I passed to the PC's, once again playing games, and sooner I had my 1st PC at home, it was a portable XT with 20MB of disk space and 640Kb memory (only), what a machine, ha?! I can't let this moment pass without thanking the programmer of ARJ compressor, that helped me a lot that time, and keeps helping!!
    Later my father bought me a desktop (tower) PC, all in separated parts, motherboard, hard disk, floppy disk, etc... etc..., all unmounted... I have to say that was a completely mess!! The only thing that worked OK was the monitor, keyboard, and a 51/2 floppy drive! Everything else, sooner or later had trouble... It was a great experience, helped me a lot to understand how to things work, and don't to be afraid of that "black box".
    The games started to be very boring, all the same old... So I had to start new things... What about programming my own things ? Looks OK to me... So I started learning Pascal with the help of my father, wow that was cool! It was like a game that you can do whatever you want!!
    Later on I had my 1st modem, 2400, wow what a speed!! 10 mins for 100kb!! It was BBS's time, InterNet was almost only available to Universities, and it was very expensive. People talked in FidoNet not in real time, but like newsgroups.
    I wanted to have one BBS for my own! So I started the job, it was first called Bits & Bites, it was where I met my 1st friend by "computer", Hugo Ferreira, I had a limited software for managing the BBS, so I bought PCBoard, a great program, that I could program almost everything. At that time I renamed the BBS to Black Town BBS. It was online for about 2 years, day and night.
    At 1995 I 1st connected to InterNet, it was like a big black & white BBS, my 1st IP was PUUG (Portuguese Unix Users Group) now its called EUNet. It was great, I could talk with someone that was on the other side of the world, not only with the SysOp (System Operator, the owner of the BBS). I could search things in Finland, was amazing...
    Now here we are with this splendid world for all of us, almost free.

    My flight history...
    I started flying with MS Flight Simulator 4, black and white... :)
    But I really piloted my 1st radio controlled plane I think I was near 10 years old. It had only controls for yaw and pitch, nothing more, and it had an electric engine.
    In this "world" I met one incredible person that helped me a lot, and I'll be forever grateful for all that he done for me, thank you Dr.Figueiredo. His son had one Ultralight, and that was my 1st time I took my feets out of the ground, it was an explended flight.
    And when I was almost 17 me and my father started to learn how to pilot ultralights.
    Now I'm currently flying a Falcon XP, canard type ultralight.

    My personal life history...
    Hey! You really want to know ??? Isn't that enough ???
    Ok... Ok... For the girls... I'm not currently available, sorry...

    How to... Contact me ?
    Want to contact me ? It's easy...
     By email zejulio@mail.telepac.pt.
     In IRC with nick CrazY_FalcoN in #terraprometida and/or #gaia and/or #v.n.gaia.
     Or in ICQ 3971408. Im currently .