James Wolff

Jim is a husband first, then a father to 2 young boys, host of a family podcast (The Howling Wolves), producer of our local church sermon podcast, Sr Software Engineer for an avionics company in Iowa. My first fascination for gadgets came at a very young age. While in grade school, my friend and I would make trips to the local Radio Shack and pick up switches, LEDs, potentiometer and experimental boxes to build imaginary gadgets. My first computer was an Apple IIe which was purchased by my parents around 1985. The second system I stumbled upon was the Commodore Amiga 2000 and I spent many hours playing with the graphics. My next machine was a mini laptop, a no-name brand running windows 3.1. This machine I used at Iowa State where I got my degree in software computer engineering in 1992. My next purchase was a Gateway 2000 and with many student loans outstanding I had to get a loan to buy this computer. After many years of using this machine, we upgraded to the Dell. From this point on we were purchasing Dell about every three years. My last purchase was a MacBook Pro. I have always been fascinated with gadgets, I own plenty, which has earned me the nickname "gadget man" by my family and co-workers.