Yes at 75 Years young I am a student studying Website development. The students in this intake have restored my faith in the future. I’m most impressed!
My first Qualification in Victoria 1962 to 1967 Telecommunications Technician followed my childhood interest in electronics.
After a brief training period I spent the year 1968 at Mawson in the Antarctic.
Over the next two years I worked in research from antenna design to design of test equipment used in the testing of data transmission equipment (in those days it was all discrete component ie no LSI).
I attended night school to study computer programming, my calculator is more powerful than the school computer in 1970.
Moving back to Perth, my Wife’s home, in 1971 I started my new career in the computer industry.
From computer operator, to programmer, to maintenance programmer then to systems analyst.
Then I changed to micrographics enhancing the capability of the hardware and programming in machine code and writing software to control an Australian designed Micrographics camera that was sold worldwide.
I then started my own company and after a shaky start I branched into Record management. The company grew and soon had seven camera operator/data entry staff.
I now found myself not satisfied in a management role.
I new two people, one who had management skills and the other sales skills, so I convinced them to join the company.
This left me free to return to systems design where I had many large successful projects.
At age 65 I retired. This lasted less than 4 weeks I was bored, so I accepted a job managing an electronics shop. This re-activated my interest in electronics which had never really stopped as I had been working on a new designed audio amplifier and speaker system.
At age 70 I retired to concentrate on my research into my hobbies.
This now produced results. It included a concept I had designed back in the Valve era early 1960’s.
Now you have met me I will continue with my studies and will start to release some of the concepts and projects that I hope will be of interest.