A Basic Programmer's Guide to Pascal John Wiley & Sons. 1982.
Designed electronics and wrote firmware and
host software for optical oceanographic instruments. Designed
electronics, firmware, and operating software for data loggers and
data communications systems. Laid out printed
circuit boards for systems using through-hole and surface-mount
technology. Participated in government-sponsored research
projects to develop instrumentation to determine volume scattering
functions for particles in seawater and the development of
commercially available UV and visible in-situ
fluorometers.
Designed electronics and wrote firmware and
host software for optical oceanographic instruments. Designed
electronics, firmware, and operating software for data loggers.
Participated in ONR-sponsored research to develop a spectral
absorbtion meter. Helped design first commercially available
blue and green-wavelength absorbtion and beam attenuation
meters.
Taught undergraduate courses in
Pascal, assembly language, and computer
architecture. Developed a Macintosh-based Assembly
Language Emulator to assist in teaching 68000 assembly
language.
Wrote user's manuals for a number of Videx
Apple II peripheral products. Wrote several very
successful Apple-II programs to enhance the utility of Videx
Products. Also wrote one of the very few commercial products
for the Apple Lisa computer--this was a very early application of
Object Oriented Software (Object Pascal).
The Computer Store evolved (after my
tenure), into Computer Stores Northwest--a chain of 6
stores. Today, I simply cash dividend checks and go to
stockholder meetings.
During the Vietnam War era, I was a Communications Technician (CTI), then a Cryptologic Officer with the Naval Security Group (for a closer look at the NSG see the FAS site). I learned to understand French and worked with some sophisticated telemetry and communications equipment. I also learned the fundamentals of small-group leadership and management. I lived in Monterey, Morocco, and Hawaii. I visited interesting areas of the North and South Pacific Oceans on a variety of surface vessels with lots of antennas.
After my release from active duty in
1974, I sailed a small boat around the San Francisco Bay area
for four months, then moved to Corvallis Oregon, for graduate studies
in Oceanography. Thanks to the GI Bill and a research
assistantship sponsored by ONR, I can lay absolutely no claim
to ever having been a starving grad student!