ABOUT THE AUTHOR
GENE BACKLIN is owner and principal consultant of MariZack Consulting, formed in 1991 with one purpose — to help. He has been helping clients for over 30 years, including IBM, McDonnell Douglas, Waste Management, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Nations Bank, Bank of America, and Bank One to name a few. He is also a faculty member of DePaul University's College of Computing and Digital Media.
His childhood interest in electronics helped him break into the computer industry. He still has the Heathkit H-8 digital computer and H-9 video terminal that he built in 1978. He taught himself programming using Extended Benton Harbor Basic. After the IBM-PC was introduced, Gene built the Heathkit H-151 PC-compatible computer, which is still running today. If you ask him about the information revolution, his response would be "Fascinating." He has developed on computers that loaded programs from paper tape, to the revolutionary NeXT computer (he still has two), to the iPhone and iPad. Gene feels very fortunate to have not only seen an industry evolve, but also to have been an active participant in it.
He is thrilled to have penned a companion text to his Developing NeXTSTEP Applications, which he wrote back in 1995.
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