About
Welcome!
Welcome to Vintage Bytes! I’m Andy Wightwick - a tech enthusiast with over three decades of experience in information technology, tackling complex challenges in business and government sectors. Here, we’re demystifying technology by bringing it out of the office and into our daily lives.
Vintage Bytes explores how yesterday’s innovations shaped today’s world and how they can inspire the future. My mission is to bridge the gap between old-school tech and cutting-edge innovation, empowering minds of all ages to discover that with technology, the world is accessible and knowable.
Let’s dive into the stories, lessons, and hidden gems of our technological past to build a brighter, smarter future- one byte at a time!
Statement of Humility
Teaching and learning are a balance between self-confidence and humility. Vintage Bytes was created as a passion project and meant to inspire future generations to feel confident experimenting with technology.
Experimenting is never linear, and it’s our aim to show how even an ‘expert’ may need to problem solve, think creatively, pivot, and fail forward— to quote Einstein, “You never fail until you stop trying.”
While we may be knowledgeable in many topics discussed on the site, we will also be experimenting and learning together on other topics. We humbly recognize that there are experts who may know more, have already solved for our problem, or created a better solution. We welcome their supportive and friendly comments and feedback as a part of the community learning process we aim to foster.
Website Code of Conduct
We want all visitors to Vintage Bytes no matter their age or technology experience to have a safe, interesting and friendly time. All users of our sites and any contributions they make to the sites must comply with this Code of Conduct. Your use of our websites means that you accept and agree to follow this Code of Conduct. As the Code of Conduct might be updated, please review this page regularly.
If you reasonably believe that any contribution to our websites made by another user violates this Code of Conduct, please let us know. A website “contribution” means any material posted or uploaded to our websites including any text, photographs, graphics, video, audio material, etc.
Your Contributions:
- must be your own original work and should not plagiarize others’ work without citing them.
- must not infringe anyone else’s rights, including copyright.
- must be respectful and civil to other members, even if you disagree with them.
- must be true and accurate.
- must not contain unsuitable or irrelevant links.
- must not promote illegal or anti-social behavior.
- must not misrepresent their origins by impersonating other persons.
- must not involve any flooding, spamming, or advertisin
- must not disclose any personal information.
Breach of the Code of Conduct
It will be our decision if there has been a breach of this Code of Conduct. Vintage Bytes has the right to edit, refuse to post, or to remove any contribution in whole or in part that feels in breach of the Code of Conduct. If there is a breach in the Code of Conduct, we can take any of the following actions:
- issuing a warning to you.
- immediate, temporary, or permanent withdrawal of any contribution or of your right to use our websites, including deletion of any personal profile
- legal proceedings against you.
- disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities or others.
