User:Mark-in-seattle

Embedded computer systems designer living (obviously) in Seattle, Washington. Was fortunate enough to find an interesting career beginning in 1976 designing small computer systems to control theater lights and industrial machinery. Soldered together my first computer, a non-S100 "Digital Group" system, which had 8k of 2102 memory chips and loaded it's OS from a cassette tape. Those were exciting and exasperating times, much as now.

Interests are; Architecture and affordable housing design, Solar energy product design, progressive political theory, political campaign strategy & practice, Volleyball, Tennis, Sailing and hiking.

My wife began at MSFT near the end of 1981, employee #89(?). She enjoyed the work and people there tremendously, until corporate middle management groupthink took hold many years later. Her friendships forged at the company have stood the test of time. I myself never liked their machine language assemblers and thought the company wasn't going anywhere...doh! Like I said, I'm an engineer, what do I know about business. Learning more about that from Jim Cramer now.