The CyberDen went through many inceptions.

Originally run on an Apple ][+ as ARCADE CITY which even had a corresponding newsletter that I distributed, I covered all the latest and greatest video games in the arcades. I eventually moved to the Waffle software and concentrated on music and entertainment. I eventually made the jump to a GUI based network years before the web started with the NovaTerm system with several PC's, Mac's and a Sun Sparc 1+ all networked to a hardline 56K digital modem and eventually a dual ISDN connection.

NovaTerm was short lived though and I made the very expensive jump to the FirstClass Network, another GUI system accessible via dial-up lines (I had 4 at the time) or via direct links via internet connections.

Eventually the web took over and I dropped FirstClass in favor of writing HTML. The main element of the website was to catalog the many record label's releases for which I designed a perl script to dynamically create thousands of pages instantly based on the label's directory structure and folder contents offering pictures and sounds at the click of a button. Pretty amazing stuff for back then.

Lollapalooza 1993
During the peak of running CyberDen and House of Usher, I was ask to join the Lollapalooza '93 festival as the resident cyber-geek with what I called The CyberPit which consisted of 10 networked Macintosh computers all packed in Partridge Family looking coffins. Their main functions were as simple chat rooms, information kiosks, charity donation selectors and message entry stations for messages people would want to see on the big sign above the stage.

Most my day was spent maintaining the network with the festival's ongoing and ever changing events with real-time updates, scanning, vid-caps, setup, strike, maintenance, repair and the occasional putting out of the random electrical fire due to poor venue wiring.

Then there was the day I almost landed 6 feet under when a freak tornado touched down near the festival and while rushing to take down one of the computer kiosks, the wind picked another one up off the ground and as it fell on me, I jumped just enough to the side to get almost out of it's way... but not far enough for it to cause some major damage that would haunt me for the rest of my life with a bad lower back. The on-site doctor was kind enough to make sure I didn't pull a Stiv Bators from my injuries. Ain't touring fun? I've got a roughly 2 hour video tape I'm converting to DVD of some of the tour hijinx to prove it!

Computer Programmer
(6502 Assembly, Filemaker Pro, Perl)
After starting off playing with BASIC in the 70's and working at The Computer Store in Santa Monica for a while, my first 'real' programming job was with a company called DataMost writing disc copy-protection algorithms for Apple ][ games and writing various in house software.

I soon got offered a job at a company called The Games Network which was set up in the house where apparently some of The Addams Family and the movie BEN was filmed in! I was one of their 6502 programmers and work in the R&D tech department converting Apple ][ games for use on one of the first cable TV on-demand gaming consoles in the world which unfortunately never made it past it's premiere.

I ended up at The Software Toolworks / Mindscape writing code for The Chessmaster (Apple ][ & Nintendo versions) and The Miracle Piano Teaching System (Nintendo). I was also writing music for their various games (PC/NES/SNES) and did some convention support for The Miracle as well.

I left shortly after Mindscape ate up Toolworks to pursue my music writing and sound design work yet I was still active in various other programming projects be it PERL scripting for cyberden.com or Filemaker Pro database work for various clients including my current work with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Century City, California.

Hardware and Software over the years
All this programming, networking, creating websites, writing music, running umpteen clubs and touring all over the USA has taken it's toll on my experience factor which includes having to use the following hardware and software for prolong periods of time on PC's, Macintoshes, Apples and Atari ST's:
 

Digital Performer	Sonar Pro Audio
Sound Tools	Sound Forge
Pro-Tools	ACID
Alchemy	Vegas Video
Photoshop	CorelDraw
Cooledit	DVD Architect
Dr. T's Omega (Beta Tester)	CGI/Perl - PHP
Filemaker Pro + CDML	Microsoft Office

Music Hardware utilized over the years