User:Ablack29

What I am doing here

I’m a novice Wiki, contributing information that I have stumbled upon that seems to have been overlooked or yet to be documented, I hope others will add to it and correct it.

Where I’ve been in technology

60s Starting with Vacuum Tube circuits with help from my Dad in the mid 60’s Built a Knight Kit Vacuum Tube Voltmeter and Oscilloscope Built my first telescope using surplus lenses from Edmund Scientific.

70s First started computing in 1971 on a HP 9100A Worked as an Electrician Started Lost Wax Casting, Built and tested Radiometers, Blackbody Radiation Emitters, and Target Projectors. Designed, built and ran sound and lighting systems for rock bands. Built my first Intel 8080 / S100Bus computer, with a Tarbell cassette for storage. Designed and built video digitizers, large displays started into “Digital Image Processing”

80s Worked on the original Kaypro design for then Non-Linear Systems. More rock band projects Software Engineer for NCAD very early 3D Cad software. Applications Engineer for real time image processing systems Image Processing Product Manager, Sales Engineer, Sales Manager

90s Image Processing Sales Manager, VP Sales and Marketing Started Sand Casting Aluminum and Brass

00s Still selling technology Foundry got it’s first Induction Furnace started casting Steel, Iron, Stainless Steel, Nickel, German Silver. Early adopter of rapid prototyping abs digital lmage processing to foundry.

What I like to do.

Hang out with my family and friends Travel Play Guitar and Mandolin when I get the time Restore & Collect Cars, Radios, Steam Toys, Gas Engines, Tractors, Batteries Collect rocks, minerals, fossils, coins and junk. Foundry Work on the House Cook Airplane pilot (not for 15 years) Ham radio operator “N6XDV”