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To: Kathy in Alaska

My Alma Mater. Spent several years off and on of technical training at KAFB from 1959 to 1967.

Closed out a civilian career as a computer engineering professional with companies like HP, Intel, IBM. I figure I had the equivalent of a PhD/Masters in Computer Engineering from all that training and experience.

I paid it back with 7 years of active duty supporting the Minuteman ICBM (and other weapons and defense systems) which I helped get in the “green” in Montana during and after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

First computer training was the SAGE FSQ7 (50,000 minature vacuum tubes) One flip-flop was as big as a standard PC.

I am 77 years old now and all my young friends still come to me for PC computer advice. LOL


16 posted on 04/23/2018 7:06:20 PM PDT by 386wt
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To: 386wt
Welcome to the Canteen, 386wt, and thank you for your service to our country.

And now you are the local "expert" on PC computers....very nice.

59 posted on 04/23/2018 11:00:11 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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