The next 8 years were spent working in New Haven for Health Systems International, which was lots of fun, but that's another story.
The next 8 years were spent working in New Haven for Health Systems International, which was lots of fun, but that's another story.
My first encounter with computers was in 1968 as a Freshman engineering student at the University of Michigan, taking a required Fortran IV class.
I headed back to Ann Arbor, still having enough contacts there to get my job back at the Computing Center, and liking the city a lot.
I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.
It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.
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