All right, welcome everyone back to Telecom Radio One, and we are continuing our series

dissecting popular IT nerds today. Very happy to have Brian Martinez on the show. Brian is from a place that's

near and dear to me. Colorado lived there for 14 years. Had at least half of my children there,

which was, well, almost half. It was at least three kids there. So Brian, hey man, welcome to the

show. Great to have you on there. How is it

out there today? Yeah, it's beautiful out here. I want to thank you for having me on. It's a beautiful day

and, you know, typical Colorado weather, always see the sun, which is great. Awesome. So you've got a lot

of experience, man, but like most people, we all, or most people who got into IT or technology at some

point, it starts off, it starts off somewhere, man. So what's your, I kind of like the theme of

what was your first computer, which is something that I've been asking a lot of people lately,

and believe it or not, some IT guys didn't even have a computer, but what about you? What was your

first computer? Did you have a

first computer? And how did you get into this whole, this technology thing or this nerdy thing we call

IT? Well, my first computer was an Apple 2, and then I got an Apple 2E, and then I was very excited to

build a 386 computer.

So I've been in IT since the inception of the computer.

I started taking my parents' electronics apart, and that's kind of where it got me into IT.

I remember, you know, it's funny you say 386 because I remember building, I remember building my first 386 as well and getting all

the catalogs in the mail and looking at all the various different you know like like I want a tower

or I want a half tower or a full and I remember I remember building my own computer myself is it similar

story for you getting all those catalogs in the mail and just you know looking over them for hours

yeah uh you couldn't like go to

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