It is cool that they are trying to save old video games. Now go after the hundred of others that are technically dead but due to IP rules the owners (loosely speaking) attack anyone who tries to keep them going.
I received my degree in Electrical Engineering, in 1981, me an a colleague were lab technicians, we taught electronics lab. First job was General Dynamics Electric Boat Division. Worked in a department designing torpedo launching systems, I moved on to Grumman Aerospace as an Avionics engineer flight control systems, currently working as an engineer for the Navy. Most of my electronics hobbies involve Rasberry Pi and Arduino. I have a darkroom develope color and B&W film and prints. When time allows I play gigs, venue is jazz. For a long while I had a pilots liscence, flew Cessna 152 and 172.
Welcome. Gotten really into Bill Evans lately.
Okay. Time for someone to add to this thread.
Retired software engineer from the Silicon Valley area of California. My most recognizable employer over the last several decades was Apple. As an Electrical Engineering student in the early 70s, I was a consumer electronics repair tech. Did several years of being the TV repairman who came to your house. When microprocessors started showing up in televisions, I became fascinated with software and moved in that direction. Now I’m looking to get back into electronic repair and restoration as a retirement hobby. Things have changed a lot.
Hi:
I am currently a Health & Safety Manager for a consulting company. I am getting ready to retire in about 8 months. I am a HAM radio operator with the General license (K6NPO). I have little background in electronics, but have always been tinkering. About 5 years ago I began getting (back) into vinyl music and procured several vintage pieces of stereo equipment (mostly Marantz). This is when my interest in electronics (eg, tube amplifiers, vintage receivers, shortwave receivers, etc.) began to really take off. I do a few repairs here and there, and occasionally buy something on eBay (if the price is right…), fix it up and resell it – sometimes I even break even!! I’ve had several jobs in the past ranging from construction to Fish and Game biologist. And a Crew Chief in the Air Force working on F-15s. Let me know if you want to talk about anything… oh, I would love to scratch build a hifi tube amplifier with phono capability.
– Scott
@scotts Welcome. Thanks for your service, and hope you enjoy your upcoming retirement.
@retiredbitshifter Welcome. Hope you enjoy your retirement 🙂
I’m a new member here. I’m a retired engineer that spent most of my career in the defense industry designing and developing warheads. Over the years i used LabView for data aquisition and test equipment. So now I play with an Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Currently building an electro magnetic levitation base for my granddaughter. So not a very deep involvement in electronics and now it’s time I learned
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I’ve been interested in radio since the late ’50s when neighbours gave me their old radios. They were the ones with 2-volt lead-acid accumulators and large 90 or 120 volt HT (B) batteries. In 1962, I started work with the UK Post Office Telephones then in the ’70s and ’80s worked for a time in the Radio and TV trade and two electronics factories as a technician. From 1990 until I retired in 2011, I returned to telecomms as a cellphone base station engineer and later maintaining electronic exchanges as well. I like playing with simple circuits as well as being a SWL. I have also always been interested in railways.
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