[GreenKeys] Interfacing with the teletype...for newbies [M26 newbie, part 2]

[Harold Hallikainen]

On Mon, July 1, 2024 6:14 pm, Gerry Block wrote:
>  Sounds like you have it under control.
> I'm sure Vic Poor could have used your talents back in the day.
> Gerry

I dunno. Vic Poor was pretty amazing (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Poor ).

My first electronics experience was all vacuum tube stuff. In high school,
it was all vacuum tubes and a very little bit of transistors. In college,
it was all transistors, then small scale integrated circuits, then
microprocessors (the 4004, the 8008, then the 8080). I then designed a few
products using the MC6802. About 1995, I got started with PIC
microcontrollers and continued with them until retirement in 2021. In my
work after the year 2000, I did a LITTLE FPGA work. I worked with a DSP
consultant who would write the code for TI DSP chips and give me an SPI
interface to them so I could vary settings (filters and delays in audio
systems for cinema). But I never wrote any DSP code. The DSP TU is my way
of getting started in DSP. Similarly, at work we had a tech who could do
amazing things with SMT. If I needed a test point point on some pin of a
1200 pin BGA FPGA, he'd bring out a wire wrap wire for me to watch a
signal on. The DSP TU is the first SMT soldering I've done, the first
design I've done with KiCAD, etc. All fun stuff!

Retired and still learning!

Harold
https://w6iwi.org



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