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| Personal background |
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I am an old old electrical/electronics engineer. Started out playing with junk 'reject' transistors my Mother would bring me home from Texas Instruments when they were the NEWEST thing. Then She would bring home 'reject' ICs. I got hooked on flip-flop games at a very young age [early 1960s].
The fun games I played, 24 hours a day, snowballed [much to the chagrin of highschool teachers] into a constant obsession. My first adventure into pseudo computers was the little-bitty Sinclair gizmo. It was a hoot!
Viet-Nam was next, I lived, came home, went to Sam's Technical Institute, college, etc. Then, finally wound up @ an East Texas newspaper as Chief Technical Engineer, they needed somebody to fix their junk copiers:] During this period; my Mom sent me the first battery operated, hand-held calculator w/ great computational extras... the TI SR-10, then the bigger one with the little card reader [I forget it's model number].
Then, the newspaper, purchased a digital typesetter to replace their many, many antique Witches [lineotype lead typesetters]. Everything went wild after that! They discovered digital stuff always broke down! My position snowballed and got really important after that. After being sent to several East and West coast equipment schools, I was on duty 24 hours a day for 30+ years. I finally got out of the business due to Multiple Sclerosis disabilities. I miss it. Total Front Line, HI-REZZ Super Excellent Fun, 36+ hours a day. No Breaks due to boredom! :]
I now sit and constantly revise my 5 foot high computer/JunkBox/conglomeration of 30 years of everything digital! I love to BLOW IT UP @ least 2 or 3 times a month.
Of course, Bill hates me because I have had to get XPPRO re-re-re-re-re-[etc] activated about 40 times since last Christmas! That one thing alone makes me very happy.... Pissing off Mr Gates:]
Dick2
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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ME = Total SciFi nut; that's me. I believe. You do too, or you wouldn't be wasting your time by reading this junk, right:]
I tripped over SETI in a newspaper story back in the 90's. I figured I'd see if my 8086 could handle it. No probs!! Finally something useful to do with the computer. It made me feel very important. And really real!!
I believe, for sure. We ARE going to find Them. Hopefully before they find US!!!!
SETI/Boinc it the greatest thing since helping the old lady next door to get her groceries in the house and mowing her yard once in a while:] Makes me feel like I am something besides some loose protoplasm squooshing around using up 02 and polluting the atmosphere.
So, sure, this deal MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
Dick2
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