User:Grommette

My name is Doug Ingraham. I was born in 1956 which makes me almost old and wise although not as wise as I once would have claimed. My interests are Photography, Radio Control flight, DIY Electric cars, and collecting old computers. I have worked most of my adult life as a computer programmer mostly specializing in micro and embedded processors. I started my programming career in High School with Fortran on an NCR Century 100 and the DEC PDP-8. While in college I purchased a MITS Altair 8800 kit which I assembled in my dorm room. More recently I have programmed the 8 bit Microchip PIC series of processors. Since 1994 I have worked with the internet as a sysadmin and more recently for a regional telephone company keeping the high speed packet network under control.

The username Grommette is my college nickname and has nothing to do with the cartoon or comic. I created this user to correct issues I see with both the PDP-8 entries and the Intel 8080 entries. I have working examples of both in my collection of dusty old computers.

At some point I will have to pretty this up.