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About Me
- Cyberdrax of Silicon Valley
- With a B.A. in Math and an M.S. in Cybernetic System, I worked for 40 years in Silicon Valley, first as a process control software engineer, then as an information development writer. Computer technology changed relentlessly over those years. Early projects with the U.S. Navy and NASA pioneered network communications culminating in the Ethernet. I was at Ampex when they developed mag tape and disk drives. Daisy Systems provided the first high res graphical VLSI design eliminating tons of paper. My favorite assignment was at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center during the Apollo project. I saw the Earth rising over the limb of the Moon; it looked like a blue marbled egg. I thought the Earth looks like an egg — the place where humanity is born, but not destined to live there forever. I enjoyed developing books for both engineering professionals and regular end users. I found building a good book from scratch-notes to finished binding is very satisfying. While working in these roles, I also was enthralled by extrapolations of science fiction with interstellar scope.