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Originally Posted by KC911
I started on punch cards, and even though that stuff came easy for me, I knew damn well that I wasn't gonna program for a living.....boring  . Hit the job market in terrible times, but landed in IBM's Advanced Communicatuons Products Division at Research Triangle in r&d....I had found my niche. Had no idea where it would lead, but it served me very well in the corporate world...I did my own thing, held the keys to the kingdoms, and had a freakin' ball along the way  . |
Dads Godson was part of the IBM team that installed the first computer automated auto production line in the world at Chrysler in 62. He lectured the Japanese in Tokyo on how they could install similar production lines and then transfered to Europe where he was part of the IBM team that installed a similar production line in the USSR circa 1970. In the early 2000's he developed a car theft system in the UK similar to LoJack (or Northstar) except you could kill the electrical system on the car. It was picked up by Range Rover and Aston Martin...Another application was the ability to monitor a cars road usage so that a toll for that usage could be collected. I invested a small amount into his co and never got a dime back...ehhh