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by dr_when » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:51 am
Hi,<p>I have been a project engineer for a largish American company for 12 years and involved in the electronics & software industry for close to 30.<p>I had one of the first Trash-80's and probably have owned every type of PC at one time or another. TRS-80's, CoCo's, Sinclairs, Commodores from VIC20 to Amiga's, Atari's, Kaypro's, etc, etc. Worked with OS's like OS-9, CPM, DEC RSX11, DOS, etc.<p>I learned assembly language on the Z80's and have written machine code for 8080's, 6502's, 6805's, 8048's, 8051's, 64180's, DECs, PICS, Atmel u's, etc.<p>I learned programming languages like Fortran, COBOL, BASIC, Logo, Pascal, Python, FORTH, and even ugly PLC ladder logic through the years. I now do everything in C and C++, and yes, still assembly and I don't consider drag-and-drop Visual BASIC, etc as programming. Embedded stuff is the most fun.<p>My day to day job is designing embedded systems for portable printers and then writing the code to run on them. I am an incurable electronics & software hobbyist and dabble in just about everything from electronic music to circuit board fabrication (using a Sherline Mill with CNC software) to mechanically etch prototype boards. I got tired of the mess of etching chemicals long ago. I also do computerized silkscreening of tee-shirts, computerized embroidering of clothing, CNC woodworking, Home automation, and on and on. I just wish there were 48 hours in a day!!!!<p>Bob
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