About ThatSandersKid

Hi. I’m Jamie Sanders. Given the fact that you’ve clicked a link to this page, you evidently wish to know more about me. I am 16 year old computer geek that likes tinkering with random technologies. I was born in Wichita, KS and currently reside in Garden Plain, KS. My early beginnings with computers were at the age of 5, fixing old Apple II systems at my elementary school. (For those who care, they were essentially terminals that weren’t configured so well.)

I’ve always had a strange fascination with technology. My initial interest in anything electronic probably started at the age of 3, when I had a strange tendency to stick my collection of magnetic letters in the VCR. About the time I was 5, I inherited my older brother’s NES. We had a total of 2 games for it: Super Mario Bros. + Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros. 2. Somehow, that thing managed to keep me entertained for a long while. When I was 8, for my birthday, I got the Game Boy Color. I got to go pick it out, and decided to get Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, a remake of the original. Why I thought that was a good idea is completely beyond me. In 2001, when the Game Boy Advance was released, I got Super Mario Advance. For whatever reason, I’m just a sucker for remakes.

I also own a Game Boy Printer, Game Boy Camera, Nintendo 64 (Complete with Transfer Pak and Voice Recognition Unit), Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Game Boy Micro, Pokemon Mini and Nintendo DS.

My first proper computer was a Texas Instruments TravelMate 4000M Laptop. I use the term “proper computer” as it wasn’t a vTech device (those things still scare me to this day) and, save for the floppy drive, actually managed to work properly. It had a 486DX with 24 MB RAM and a 600 MB hard drive and ran Windows 95 Plus. I’m still a sucker for those Plus! packs, and I’m not sure why.

My current computers are as follows: