User:JohnMassa

I have worked 50 years in the electronics industry as an Electrical Engineer, educated at the University of Notre Dame, served three years as President of the Central Texas Computer Association and Editor of the organization's magazine, the PRINTOUT. I am a retired U.S. Air Force Captain. I hold several patents, one on a four-foot by six-foot digitizer (Houston Instruments) and another for a radio controlled door opener. I am a HAM radio operator(KE5DFH). I have had a most interesting electronics career: 1. I designed a 3 Volt 3000 Ampere power supply and built several for the Mojave Power Station near Bullhead City. The unit powered the "Smoke-abatement" system for coal fuel. 2. I designed and built the CO2 detectors for the Hamilton Standard space suit's breathing gear and also for the international space station itself, then named "Freedom". 3. I designed and built a small sonar system for fish. It measured the fish's internal temperature plus the water temperature. These systems were implanted in various species of fish. The project aided in the determination of the best species to keep the cooling ponds "Vibrant" for atomic generating facilities. 4. I designed and built and sold a floppy-disk duplicator for the Atari computer. The Atari had a very slow disk drive and my system duplicated 1,000 disks per hour. 5. I designed and built a "Rolling Dynamometer" for Harley Davidson motorcycles, long story, I'll tell you later. Presently I am a third-party consultant for Microchip Technology and owner of Datadog Systems here in California. My hobby is my work and I love all varieties of small computers.