About me

<p>A retired electrical engineer (B.Sc & M.Sc.) that started out in digital hardware design with DEC   PDP11's with in-house 16 bit parallel DMA interface to IBM 370 model 67 ( Water cooled EC logic) in mid  1970's using X.25 (predecessor to TCP/IP protocol,layer 1 and 2) to interface serially to other computers around UBC campus. Four board parallel/serial x.25 adapter  design was obsoleted within one year with a single chip from Western Digital - that is how fast things were developing. Computer knowledge came from Dr, John MacDonald (MDA fame) at UBC and my 1st paying  job was working in UBC Computer finishing Vern Dettwilers' hardware projects when he went full time with John in MacDonald Dettwiler Associates.  I switched to control systems software in pulp and paper industry in 1978 to get a decent pension, make better money, and loved controlling the very  large machinery until retirement in 2004. Vancouver, BC was no "Silicon Valley" in the 1970's but little did I know the internet would destroy MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. when newsprint was obsoleted by the very technology I had worked on! Should have worked for MDA after all? Moderate expertise in most  Windows OS as needed with a lot of help from Google.</p>