Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

I'm a recently-retired electrician (industrial construction/maintenance) whose first electronic projects used vacuum tubes (and whose first car had a mechanical distributor, points, cap and coil. My first digital computer was a TRS-80 Model 1. I was "there" as 24-volt electro-mechanical relay control panels in manufacturing plants were replaced by wire-wrap solid state IC boards, paper tape drives, and eventually programmable controllers.
Now, just about everything from my toothbrush to my television set is microprocessor-based...