mike047 wrote:DaddyRabbit wrote:Welcome aboard! I too remember the birth of the PC (and some pre-BOPC stuff like Vic-20 cassette drives and TRS-80

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What military electronics background? (Navy Avionics myself)
USN[64-77]
Originally an ATR but later just AT. Worked on F-4, A-7, and S-3's.
Tours;
Kitty Hawk[2], Constellation[3], Ranger[1], Oriskany[1] and America[1].
West coast mostly, one tour at Oceana.
ECM specialty.
I was East coast, started as an AQ but they merged the rates (AT, AX, AQ) all into AT in the end.
Started in IWT on the A-7 ("E" birds) then moved to Hornets on initial fleet deployment, Nimitz, Carl Vinson, and Coral Sea, tailhook all the way... no shore duty for the "Fire Control Radar types

" finished up in Key West doing, oddly enough, Jammers, ECM, and Missile Simulators....
The "spouse" is still active duty which makes my old, fat male butt a "Navy Wife" I guess... for Xmas last year she bought me one of those "Navy Wife, Toughest Job In The Navy" coffee mugs, Jeesh I taught her well!
Once again, welcome aboard
