Age

[Steve Thatcher]

okay, I will confess... born 1953 and built my first "small"computer out of 
telephone relays in 65. I designed and built a four bit counter out of 
discrete parts in 1967. Started programming in 1967 on a Monroe desktop 
scientific calculator that used mark sense type cards for program input and 
nixies for output (I bought one of them a few years ago on eBay that works 
perfectly). Designed my first 8080 based microprocessor system in 1976 and 
finally bought a Northstar Horizon in 1978. I designed hardware and wrote 
software on it while I worked for Applied Microsystems and designed 
in-circuit emulators. I had Intel's ISIS system running on the Northstar 
also... Bought a minimal IBM PC in 1982 and have used a variation of the PC 
since (currently it is a 2.2GHz Pentium 4). I have worked for Attachmate 
and done development on 3270 products. I have worked for Traveling Software 
and done program development on Laplink. I have worked for Intermec and 
developed wireless access points and been on the IEEE 802.11b standards 
group. I currently do hardware and software development for the feds using 
Microchip cpus, Xilinx CPLDs and FPGAs, and whatever else is needed for a 
particular project.