[GreenKeys] Old Geezers

[Jim Haynes]

Just turned 78 here.

Growing up in a small town, it was possible for a kid to hang out at
the newspaper, Western Union office, radio station, etc.  and see Teletype
in operation.  Discovered amateur RTTY through Wayne Green column in CQ 
magazine.  Got conditional class license in 1957 while a student at U.
of Arkansas, Fayetteville.  (No need to fool around with the novice
class license, you can't do RTTY with that.)  Got the U of A ham club
station W5YM on the air on RTTY, thanks to a machine donated by Teletype
Corp.  Summer job with Teletype in Chicago for two summers, returned
there after service in USAF in 1963.  Stayed 3 years, then left for the
computer biz with G.E. in Phoenix.  Landed engineering job with University
of California at Santa Cruz under computer pioneer Harry Huskey.  Stayed
there 30 years and retired back to Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Wrote a long memoir about all of this which seems to have gone, if not
viral, at least somewhat infective on the web.  Google for "chad is our
most important product"

Jim W6JVE