Well, I suppose I should reply to my own message! I am an EE by training - did my degree and then worked for one of the major players, initially working on digital filtering for the radar for Harrier jump-jets - I learnt to drive by pretending to be a Harrier - we couldn't have a real one on site for the whole project, so we had a big LandRover with about $2M work of equipment in the back and a big, remote controlled, telescopic mast on top with our transducers on the end. I spent a lovely summer driving up and down a field with the mast going up and down, pretending to be a Harrier coming into land.
Moved out of being a professional EE pretty quickly - always liked running my own businesses, so went into financial software for big banks - after 10 years, that business was sold and I went through a few more startups. Some were great, some crashed & burnt! Worked at HP, DEC, start-ups, a hedge fund or two, a big derivatives exchange etc. along the way. Last couple of years have been having fun in the UAE. Still very much an engineer at heart & love designing & building stuff. I have far FAR too many tubes - over 10,000 of which a large percentage are nixies of all types. My main interests are in ultra-low-power environmental monitoring using IoT motes, valve audio, bees and building & designing eco-houses. Now getting to that stage of life where I want to have less stuff, so am downsizing the stock and am in the process of designing the next eco-house with my wife (of 30 years, this week!). Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/53fca4ab-b05a-4bcc-918b-596d5c007cfb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
