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The "real" pioneers of our industry
My previous post about pioneering was merely a reflection of my experiences with the new equipment back then. In a ‘dead-serious’ moment I would like to acknowledge there were ‘real’ pioneers that made this all possible for us.
And I have to admit I have a family stake in this mix. My older sister Sharon married a wild and crazy motorsickle nut in 1964. After a tour of duty in SE Asia her husband buckled down and obtained a EE degree from OSU in 1971 with studies being in something called “computer science”. One of only two degrees in Computer Science that year. BTW. Pops wouldn’t talk to him for a few years because he had not followed the CE path. The two men eventually would sit down at a Thanksgiving dinner without too much friction.
Sharon’s husband was offered a job in Loveland, Colorado for a small upstart outfit called Hewlett Packard. He stayed there 35 years and helped develop some of the software we all take for granted. He still rides scooter, but not as fast as he use to…
Here’s a link to a pdf of the 3810A written by two of his co-workers and weekend buddies, Mike Bullock and Rick Warren, pioneers in their own right.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1976-04.pdf
And here’s a link to my some of my BIL’s crowning achievements:
http://patents.justia.com/inventor/marl-d-godfrey
Like I said, there are some REAL pioneers in this industry, not just us old dusty end-users.
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