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"James,
This site is outstanding, as are you! Spaghetti lab referred to breadboarding all of the circuits in the Comtran, which was a big console with the binary registers displayed in lights. We made adders, ring counters, registers, and basically…"
This site is outstanding, as are you! Spaghetti lab referred to breadboarding all of the circuits in the Comtran, which was a big console with the binary registers displayed in lights. We made adders, ring counters, registers, and basically…"
"Very interesting... I began doing automated pharmacy equipment with Baxter in '94, pill packagers, drug dispensers for nursing units, and UNIX servers to monitor all the operations. Muxes on firetrucks? I sure didn't know that. But the CCS on most…"
"James,
Looks like you left a lot of bodies on the roadside. That's a lot of exclusion alright! What I was saying was for the time, the avionics courses were very complete, and made a decent foundation for a technical career. Most of the technicians…"
Looks like you left a lot of bodies on the roadside. That's a lot of exclusion alright! What I was saying was for the time, the avionics courses were very complete, and made a decent foundation for a technical career. Most of the technicians…"
"James,
In '81, there were no PCs yet, save the TRS 80 (which I owned). So there was very little civilian education regarding computers back then anywhere else.
The school had a computer called the COMTRAN 10, which was a bunch of registers…"
In '81, there were no PCs yet, save the TRS 80 (which I owned). So there was very little civilian education regarding computers back then anywhere else.
The school had a computer called the COMTRAN 10, which was a bunch of registers…"
"Hi James,
Yes, the loafers and pullover describes what I was doing. My position went from dungarees to business casual in '85. I was in with the black shoes at Great Lakes, working out of GSE C school. We had simulators all over the base, ET school,…"
Yes, the loafers and pullover describes what I was doing. My position went from dungarees to business casual in '85. I was in with the black shoes at Great Lakes, working out of GSE C school. We had simulators all over the base, ET school,…"
"James,
Only the EPCC's BITE was good, because without power, you didn't have anything. It usually wouldn't tell you anything, you had to time it. You went off elapsed time to guess what was going on. The self test in the signal conditioners was…"
Only the EPCC's BITE was good, because without power, you didn't have anything. It usually wouldn't tell you anything, you had to time it. You went off elapsed time to guess what was going on. The self test in the signal conditioners was…"
"I went to NATTC Memphis in July of '81, for Tradevman school. The first stop was Animal House. I got in some mischeif, and was dropped from A Prep, because I snuck a few bottles of whisky into the barracks. Then I was given mid-watch like every…"
"James, TDs or Tradevmans were fully disbanded by '84, I was in one of the last graduating classes I think. The Navy generally looked at what you wanted, but it would definitely be instant sea duty. I became a civilian, doing simulator repair for…"
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