About me
Education
• BSEE, UC Berkeley
• MSEE, UC Berkeley
• Graduate courses MIT, Stanford
• MBA Santa Clara University
Career
• Lawrence Livermore Labs
• MIT Draper Labs
• Hewlett-Packard
• Apple Computer
• ROLM Corporation
• Tokos Medical Corporation (co-founder)
• Sunrise Aviation
• JP Instruments
Publications
• Generating Programs Automatically
• Microprogrammable Central Processor Adapts Easily to Special User Needs
• Flight Bag of Tricks
• Keeping Time
• EDM-700 Manual (JP Instruments)
Hobbies
• Flying (Commercial pilot, FAA Certified Flight Instructor, CFI, CFII)
• Piano
• Woodworking
• Jewelry
• Amateur radio (W6GCU)
• BSEE, UC Berkeley
• MSEE, UC Berkeley
• Graduate courses MIT, Stanford
• MBA Santa Clara University
Career
• Lawrence Livermore Labs
• MIT Draper Labs
• Hewlett-Packard
• Apple Computer
• ROLM Corporation
• Tokos Medical Corporation (co-founder)
• Sunrise Aviation
• JP Instruments
Publications
• Generating Programs Automatically
• Microprogrammable Central Processor Adapts Easily to Special User Needs
• Flight Bag of Tricks
• Keeping Time
• EDM-700 Manual (JP Instruments)
Hobbies
• Flying (Commercial pilot, FAA Certified Flight Instructor, CFI, CFII)
• Piano
• Woodworking
• Jewelry
• Amateur radio (W6GCU)
My 15- and 40-meter ham radio receiver (Hammarlund HQ-110C) and transmitter (Johnson Viking Ranger), c 1959
My 1960 red VW bug with a 6-meter halo antenna, c 1963
No, it's not the first iPhone. This is my 11th grade science fair project, labeled a "digital computer." But it was really just a 6-bit binary counter. You could enter numbers on the rotary telephone dial (remember those?) and the counter would accumulate the pulses and display the resulting sum on the lights to the right of the dial. Right out of Popular Electronics magazine, c 1960.
It won first prize.
It won first prize.