I completely fell off the ranks and lost all my worldly possessions in 1999. I had been let go from Motorola when the Iridium didn’t quite pick up. I prayed and I prayed. My family brought me home. Within 3 months a prayer was answered.
I can now help them.
I think lightning just struck my house! VERY LOUD!
I took an assembly language class on the Motorola 68000 chip once. It was pretty funny the first day of class. I was the last one there because I had a class clear across campus. They were going around the room, “What’s your name, major and have you ever programmed in assembly language before?” When the got to me, I told them I had programmed in COMPASS on Control Data mainframe operating systems for 22 years and wrote diagnostics in microcode assembly language (MICA) on CyberPlus parallel processors and the Joint Stars radar processor for 5 years. This girl sitting in front of me turns around and says, What the **** are you doing in here?” I replied, “For some reason my advisor thought I needed to learn the Motorola chip, but I would be happy if it was Intel.” A big discussion ensued about Motorola vs Intel. Finally this kid (they were all kids compared to me) in the back of the room says, “They still use Motorola chips for printers.” I turned around and said, “Prosecution rests.” The whole class busted out laughing. Those kids treated me like I was some sort of national treasure in that class.