Hi guys,

As my profile name hints at, I am a retired electronics tech/embedded software developer. I started my career at an isolated paper mill in Zululand in the 70s, where we worked on things from 2-way radios, CCTV, thyristor drives, PLCs, various sensors, pagers (anyone remember those) that had been dunked in beer or worse by disgruntled users. That isolation meant we had to innovate and so we designed a number of custom electronic circuits to solve problems. It was a great learning experience which included experimenting with 6800 micro-controllers using Machine Code.
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