The 1980s was a decade of transition, turmoil, and touring for me. It started off with a hiatus from the tech sector to pursue playing keyboards in a Dallas-based touring cover band. As if paying $2,000 for the privilege of playing all over Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma for 18 months wasn’t enough, I continued to dabble in a couple of other bands for another couple of years.
After the second full-time job ended in 1983, I felt like I needed to try, once again, to get my EE degree. As before, my personal projects won out over classes and I was falling behind my graduation schedule. In a strange bit of circumstances I wound up with a job offer at Hayes in Atlanta.
- Fischer-Freitas Corporation
- ECS Telecommunications
- RAM Card Tester
- Major Hardware Bug Fix
- MEPCOM International
- EZ-Print Firmware
- Menu-driven Firmware Generator
- Point of Sale Terminal Firmware
- DCM-300
- Personal Projects
- OMNI-1
- RAM Card Upgrade/Retrofit
- CP/M 3.0 Utility Set
- CP/M+ Bank-switched BIOS
- WordStar Print Formatter
- 8085.UTL
- UTL.UTL
- PALs for IEEE 696 Bus
- C Assembler Optimizer
- CP/M-86 Video Driver
- Tape Deck
- dbr Noise Reduction System
- Drawing Program
- 132-column Display
- 16-color CGA Graphics Driver
- Printer Setup Program
- BBS Subsystem
- OrCAD Printer Driver
- Hayes Microcomputer Products
- Hayes DPS
- Hayes ADC
- Hayes AutoStream
- X.25 PAD
- MNP Class 5
- V.42 bis