jwcolby54
In 1968 at the ripe old age of 14 I was given a bunch of old WWII radio equipment (transmitters and receivers out of old bombers), a bunch of tubes and stuff, and a 1957 ARRL manual. Thinking it was valuable (it was not) I started reading the ARRL amateur manual. After reading it front to back three times in about a month, I knew electronics circa 1957, IOW tube electronics. But it sparked a passion.
I fell in with an Amateur radio operator who came to my house and showed me how to get the transmitters and receivers working and so I could listen to the amateur bands. I couldn't transmit as I did not have a license. But it sparked a passion.
I continued to learn electronics and when I graduated from High School I joined the navy and became a Data Systems Technician, short for computer fixer. 102 weeks of training and 2.5 years later I went to the aircraft carrier USS Kenedy, CV67, where I server in the IOIC or Integrated Operational Intelligence Center. Working on, oddly enough, old Sperry Univac "mainframes" designed in 1958, and every single piece of electronics that surrounded them - IBM disk drives, Univac tape drives and card readers (yes, card readers), who knows what drum printers etc.
After 6 years I got out and went to work fixin stuff. After about 6 years I had maxed out salary wise and so I started to learn programming. Fell into a few programming jobs, and eventually went to work for Stac Electronics, makers of Stacker data compression as their test department.
Where I found Access, which I needed to build a database to track the bugs. They got sat on by Microsoft in negotiations to buy the company and so I had to move on. And the rest is history. In 1995 I found a job in Puebla Mexico where I worked for 5 years, found AccessD email group, linked up with Shamil, learned classes and event handling and by 1999 I was full on learning classes and event handling, after which I developed an entire framework for automating the user interface.
My blog, which I originally wrote as emails to educate my cohorts in AccessD, gave me a reputation I guess. Now I am retired and writing a book about the stuff. Read it and tell me what you think, good or bad.
I fell in with an Amateur radio operator who came to my house and showed me how to get the transmitters and receivers working and so I could listen to the amateur bands. I couldn't transmit as I did not have a license. But it sparked a passion.
I continued to learn electronics and when I graduated from High School I joined the navy and became a Data Systems Technician, short for computer fixer. 102 weeks of training and 2.5 years later I went to the aircraft carrier USS Kenedy, CV67, where I server in the IOIC or Integrated Operational Intelligence Center. Working on, oddly enough, old Sperry Univac "mainframes" designed in 1958, and every single piece of electronics that surrounded them - IBM disk drives, Univac tape drives and card readers (yes, card readers), who knows what drum printers etc.
After 6 years I got out and went to work fixin stuff. After about 6 years I had maxed out salary wise and so I started to learn programming. Fell into a few programming jobs, and eventually went to work for Stac Electronics, makers of Stacker data compression as their test department.
Where I found Access, which I needed to build a database to track the bugs. They got sat on by Microsoft in negotiations to buy the company and so I had to move on. And the rest is history. In 1995 I found a job in Puebla Mexico where I worked for 5 years, found AccessD email group, linked up with Shamil, learned classes and event handling and by 1999 I was full on learning classes and event handling, after which I developed an entire framework for automating the user interface.
My blog, which I originally wrote as emails to educate my cohorts in AccessD, gave me a reputation I guess. Now I am retired and writing a book about the stuff. Read it and tell me what you think, good or bad.
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