{"id":136,"date":"2022-11-20T12:07:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T17:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2023-12-03T15:48:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T20:48:47","slug":"1980s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/professional-life\/closed-projects\/1980s\/","title":{"rendered":"1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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&#8217;t enough, I continued to dabble in a couple of other bands for another couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Fischer-Freitas Corporation\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/projects\/1980s\/mpu-85\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"267\">MPU-85<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ECS Telecommunications\n<ul>\n<li>RAM Card Tester<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Major Hardware Bug Fix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MEPCOM International\n<ul>\n<li>EZ-Print Firmware<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Menu-driven Firmware Generator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Point of Sale Terminal Firmware<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/projects\/1980s\/dcm-300\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"270\">DCM-300<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Personal Projects\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/closed-projects\/1980s\/omni-1\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"276\">OMNI-1<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RAM Card Upgrade\/Retrofit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CP\/M 3.0 Utility Set<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CP\/M+ Bank-switched BIOS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>WordStar Print Formatter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8085.UTL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UTL.UTL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/closed-projects\/1980s\/pals-for-ieee-696\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"403\">PALs for IEEE 696 Bus<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>C Assembler Optimizer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CP\/M-86 Video Driver<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/tape-deck\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"411\">Tape Deck<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/closed-projects\/1980s\/dbr\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"417\">dbr Noise Reduction System<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drawing Program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>132-column Display<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>16-color CGA Graphics Driver<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Printer Setup Program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BBS Subsystem<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>OrCAD Printer Driver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hayes Microcomputer Products\n<ul>\n<li>Hayes DPS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hayes ADC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hayes AutoStream<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>X.25 PAD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MNP Class 5<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>V.42 bis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t enough, I continued to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":121,"menu_order":-1980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/670"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertweatherford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}