User:AVandewerdt
Background
[edit]Worked in IT all my life. Very interested in IT History from the 1950s through 1980s.
Pages I am actively working on
[edit]I took this article and turned it into a much bigger article about cheque processors in general. The 3890 section needs a total rewrite and there are not enough physical stats.
One of my favourite pages... I have added a lot of products
IT Pages I have written
[edit]I wrote most of this article using a different ID. Ideally we should change it to a 'non-impact printer family' page dedicated to any IBM printer that didn't use impact printing. The 3800 was the first but hardly the last.
I wrote this article from scratch and have really enjoyed the research
This is an amazing printer that well deserves its own page
Another amazing piece of kit that deserves its own page.
Inventor of the PPS, my first page that memorialised someone who has passed
So many great IBM printers that don't necessarily deserve a single page, but definitely deserve a good reference.
Another amazing piece of IBM history. Really enjoyed the research on this one.
really enjoyed learning about this rather strange period in IBM History Truly tiny machines
IBM optical mark and character readers
Amazing stuff. Another place IBM ventured into and then lost interest in
Non IT Pages I have written
[edit]Samantha Fish albums
So far I have added three pages:
Belle of the West and Faster (album) and Wild Heart (Samantha Fish album)
Danielle Nicole albums
So far I have added two pages:
Cry No More (Danielle Nicole album) and Danielle Nicole (EP) I then learned more about what makes an album notable and removed the page for the EP.
Thoughts on Wikipedia
[edit]I truly love creating content and focus very heavily on that.
I truly appreciate people who work to ensure Wiki articles are written to a high standard and copyright is protected.
I do however struggle with the feeling that sometimes content creators are driven away by aggressive editors and aggressive and sometimes sarcastic edit comments. I totally get Wikipedia has lofty goals that it needs to constantly strive for, but the way this is done is not always conducive to progress.