http://thelinuxexperiment.com Linnnnnuxxxxxxxxx Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:48:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thelinuxexperiment.com/the-guinea-pigs/jon-f/comment-page-1/#comment-1159 William B. Higinbotham Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:36:59 +0000 http://thelinuxexperiment.com/?page_id=17#comment-1159 I was in the US Airforce as a Jet Engine Mechanic 1978-1982. Around Dec 1981 my father William A. Higinbotham ( http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp ) sent me a Heathkit Microprocessor Kit for Christmas. I soldered it together and had to toubleshoot it because my first time soldering was not great. But the tutorial they has was extreamly clear and precise. Anyone could follow it. It worked and I got hooked programming it. I then found out from my supervisor that I can apply for cross training. I was approved and ended up at SAC Headquarters (Offutt AFB) in Nebraska. Was on Compuserve in 1983 even though no one can figure that they where around back then. I was on a VIC-20 with 150(maybe 300) baud modem and cassett tape drive backup. It was a great time in my lifealso. Just wanted to share my past. Now I work at Staples because hardware got tooo cheap and I never went for certification. Why have cert. when people should have licenses to drive a computer. Thank You Billy - The ASCII Guy I was in the US Airforce as a Jet Engine Mechanic 1978-1982. Around Dec 1981 my father William A. Higinbotham ( http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp ) sent me a Heathkit Microprocessor Kit for Christmas. I soldered it together and had to toubleshoot it because my first time soldering was not great. But the tutorial they has was extreamly clear and precise. Anyone could follow it. It worked and I got hooked programming it. I then found out from my supervisor that I can apply for cross training. I was approved and ended up at SAC Headquarters (Offutt AFB) in Nebraska. Was on Compuserve in 1983 even though no one can figure that they where around back then. I was on a VIC-20 with 150(maybe 300) baud modem and cassett tape drive backup. It was a great time in my lifealso. Just wanted to share my past. Now I work at Staples because hardware got tooo cheap and I never went for certification. Why have cert. when people should have licenses to drive a computer.
Thank You
Billy – The ASCII Guy

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]]> http://thelinuxexperiment.com/the-guinea-pigs/jon-f/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Typegeek Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:38:43 +0000 http://thelinuxexperiment.com/?page_id=17#comment-5 Dude! Your VB/Microsoft love is going to crash hard against your dreams of being a leet Linux Admin. But good luck! Dude! Your VB/Microsoft love is going to crash hard against your dreams of being a leet Linux Admin. But good luck!

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