Ronald Hines:  

My Tale¿ by Ronnie Hines After getting kicked out of UF in my senior year as an Architecture student, I enlisted in the Army before they could draft me. I thought I could outsmart the US government and control my own destiny vis-à-vis the Viet Nam war. It didn't work. Got married and went off to the war all at once. I survived the war in pretty much one piece and went back to UF on the GI Bill. I worked at and then managed the local ambulance/emergency medical service. That was good for about seven years and was pretty exciting until local government took it over. I got out and with my wife Bette, opened a retail clothing store, Levity, in Gainesville... good for about another seven years. Somewhere in there, I decided to get unmarried and start over again. I left Gainesville, and moved to the Tampa area where I went back to school again to get up to date in computer science. I apprenticed for a couple of years and then went out on my own as a contract programmer. After a few years, it looked like I could make a living at computers, so I gave the company a name, Unique Systems, a...Expand for more