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Originally Posted by astrochex
My dad was a lifetime electrical engineer, but he did not have an engineering degree.
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Neither did my pops but going to a community college studying electrical engineering in 1965/66 at 20 years old he was married, had me & my mom at home, and got a job in Silicon Valley before it was called that. coherent radiation was the name of the company, they were a defense contractor, and his boss was fond of him as the story goes. to the point he signed off on my pops getting a draft exemption for Viet Nam service cause CR was working on laser technology for the government.
Never did get his degree, but in another right place right time he got an engineering job with Atari in like 70/71 in the company's infancy. He brought the proto-type home pong video game in an aluminum box with a couple creepy rubber things as paddle dials and put it on our black and white TV for my 5th birthday party in 71. I remain confident there are at least 5-6 kids in their late 50's who remember that day too.
He dicked around after Atari went in the toilet, but after him being in so early there he really did not have to work with all the Atari stock he unloaded just after the chucky cheese thing crashed.
If you can't tell my pops is my best friend and hero...