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2025-12-04 8:36 pm
I am 82 years old and just retired. I reside in Surprise, AZ. I spent 40 years in the television industry, primarily in sales and sales support. After the TV gig, the next 18 years were with Radio Shack working my up to assistant manager and store manager. I have been a lifetime enthusiast in the field of electronics starting starting at the age of 13 as an amateur radio operator. I got involved with computers and microprocessors in my early 20's when I bought and built a Heathkit H8, an 8080 based computer. I soon found myself writing assembler and creating control programs. Today I am working primarily with ESP32's and the Parallax Propeller and Propeller2 micro's. My current project is an ESP32 based weather station built around a network of ESP32C3's.
codecage and DroneBot Workshop reacted
2025-12-05 1:05 am
Hello Jim and welcome.
I have build a couple of Heath Kit projects. They lasted a long time.
I also work with esp32's mostly. I do have a few avr boards around too.
Hope you enjoy the forum. Much better than the Arduino forum.
Noweare (Joe)
codecage and DroneBot Workshop reacted
2025-12-07 5:48 pm
I thought radio shack was going to make it big in the small computer world. After managing a store and being promised a computer store by a double crossing DM, I left and started my own computer company. We built computers, programed a software financial accounting series and serviced what we sold. Pulled the plug about 20 years ago. Had one company customer for 35 years. I was in the right place at time right time because now computers are a dime a dozen from Walmart. Now enjoy tinkering with this stuff. Outlived my K0VBG interest. Merry Christmas. Dave
2025-12-08 4:13 pm
I thought Radio Shack was doing very well with the "Tandy" brands. That business was so cut throat though. As time went by only a handful of manufacturers survived. Remember Gateway and the cows ? Sounds like you found a niche that worked out well for you. Fast forward 2025, its incredible what these microcontrollers can do, especially when teamed up with single board computers. I gave up trying to keep up and just do what I enjoy.
2025-12-08 7:49 pm
Good old Tandy where I bought my first home computer a TRS-80 that I used to learn BASIC, Z80 machine code and interfacing to the outside world. Simpler times. I seem to remember that their modus operandi was to only stock popular items rather than carry the cost of stocking everything.
I gave up trying to keep up and just do what I enjoy.
Reached the same conclusion.
2025-12-08 7:58 pm
I have been a lifetime enthusiast in the field of electronics starting at the age of 13 as an amateur radio operator. I got involved with computers and microprocessors in my early 20's when I bought and built a Heathkit H8, an 8080 based computer. I soon found myself writing assembler and creating control programs.
Another oldie on the forum 🙂 Oh those simpler halcyon days learning about electronics and programming I thought they would never end ...
Welcome to the forum.
Bill has lots of good stuff. At the moment I am interested in following his progress with his dual robot arm controller as AI and robotics has always been my main interest.
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