Who's that person, babbling on about nothing?

(page last updated: 06/02/2000).

Rob Chasmer,

I completed a four year undergraduate course at City University, London, UK, where I studied Computer Science.

Please feel free to have a look at my online CV if you are a potential employer and add me to your database. Be aware though that I am currenly employed FULL TIME and currently DO NOT wish to be canvased by job agencies.

For more information about the Chasmer family feel free to have a look at my Family Pics page or some information gathered from a name tracing organisation.

I also have a piccies page with some of me and some of my mates on various holidays.

My interests

• KAYAKING: Sitting a plastic boat with a paddle in my hands, trying to find new ways of killing, sorry enjoying myself.
  
• CLIMBING: Climbing to the top of a mountain, because it's there???
  
  
• TV & HOME CINEMA: I'm also an avid Star Trek fan, with all of the latest Deep Space Nine videos, and a fair number of ST TNG titles. Star Wars must get a mention for being the film that started it all off. I've recently been building my own home Cinema system and am now building up a collection of DVD (Digital Versatile or Video Disk) films (Zone 1 for those in the know). My next purchase has to be a sub-woofer, the "Rel Q200E" being the likely choice.
  
  
• MY COMPUTER: I own an Acorn Strong-Arm Risc-Pc with 16gb &, 32mb DRam, 2mb VRAM, Risc Os 4.02 (supporing long filenames and big hard disks), an SVGA monitor (supporting 16million colours and resolutions of up 1600x1200), 200mhz Strong ARM Risc Processor & 133mhz 586 (Pentium class) processor. These two processors give me the best of both worlds, allowing both native RISC OS applications, and foreign Windows 95 & DOS applications to run in hardware. Giving an overall good for anything machine, although in PC terms a 133 processor is a bit underpowered these days. As I have what could be considered as two machines in one box, I'm able to simply transfer files and data between the two environments with no trouble at all. Having a RISC based PC I have a number of advantages. I can for example I can run MS Windows in a RISC OS window, even PC games can be run in a window, meaning I can take a screengrab or print at any time. As well as looking very sexy, the RISC PC is very expandable. Also attached an ageing Canon BJ200 bubble jet printer, and a new 3com 56k Sportster Modem.
  
  
• ACORN: I suppose you could say I'm an avid fan of Acorn Computers, and have been since the Acorn Atom (that's before the BBC B). Then onto a BBC B with tape drive, then a dual 80 track double sided 5.25" disk drive, then a second BBC B for good measure. At the same time a friend had just bought a brand new 186 PC with 640kb, I rushed out and bought a second hand A310 with a full 1mb of memory, and no hard disk. But it was 32bit had lovely graphics, lovely stereo sound, which pi**ed all over the nastey PC. After much upgrading, 4mb memory, 80mb Hard disk, Arm 3, it was time for something new. Acorn had just brought out the Risc PC, Archimedes and PC in one box, all sharing the same peripherals. Oh and another added advantage is that I can run MS-Windows (no insult intended!!!), within a RISC OS window.
  ...Joy...or is it...
  Acorn were due to do it again with a new machine, the Risc PC II known as Phoebe but bottled it at the last hurdle. The machine never got beyond the prototype stage, and didn't go into production. I'm now left with the task of upgrading my old machine, to keep it upto spec, with a new company Risc Os Ltd having supplied part of the dead Phoebe project, the operating system Risc Os 4. Two other new companies "Risc Station Ltd" and "MICO" have been formed and are already selling new Risc Os based workstations.
  We shall see no one quite knows what the future holds, though I'm sure I'll end up buying a new cheap PC laptop with docking station. I've recently bought a cheap Windows CE machine for £99, though I always wanted a nice new Psion series 5, the £450 price tag mad it a bit of an expensive toy.
  
  
• PROGRAMMING: My programming experiences started with a BBC and carried on along the Acorn range of computers to the RISC PC. For the Acorn I have written a number of utilities & applications using 'Advanced Basic V' & 'ARM assembly language'. Many of these programs have been released as FREEWARE (PD) and recently, uploaded to 'ftp.uni-stuttgart.de' & 'micros.hensa.ac.uk'. Also look out for some of my apps on the 'Risc Disc - volume 2'. If you want to grab the latest versions of any of my apps, they are available here.
  More recently I have been coding on the PC under M$ Windros. Now I'm earning dosh PC's are unavoidable but then when I come home from work I can turn on my Risc PC and enjoy myself. I'm doing a fair bit of ASP (Active Server Pages) work, when building websites for clients. But fear not some of the languages I use are platform non dependent:- Perl (love it), Java (When I have time to learn more), C++ (Again better get coding), Basic (Well M$'s interpretation along with others).

Mail Me....

Oh and if you ever see this sig floating around you can be sure that it's me!

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