[Padgett]

In 1981 my PC was an Eclipse, by '84 I had a 11/780 and wrote a UUENCODE/DECODE in DCL to be able to pass files to another machine on the Isle of Long. Received a commendation from the Prez at the same time the telecommunication folk yanked my long distance access for "excessive usage". Was back the next day and the last time I ever saw a usage report.

But in that period was mainly trying to make a Mil-Std-1750A into a test machine (not easy to do ASCII on a machine that used words not bytes). Finally got an AFR changed and substituted 11/34s for the 1750s that never worked, saved a bunch of money & my boss was made a VP.

Was then sent to DC to try to make all of the different devices the FAA was using communicate with each other, encountered the BRAIN virus, wrote a throwaway to get rid of it so I could get back to my real job. Next thing I knew my office was the antivirus lab for the corporation. And so endeth the '80s.