[TriLUG] Old Guy Stories

[Shawn William Taylor]

JcJ,

When I went back to college to finish my first attempt. (It actually took 
me 3 tries on that first degree! There were many that doubted, yet I 
prevailed) I digress... I took a room from a couple. He had been in 
Radio/Television as well. We used to drink red wine all night and he would 
tell me stories about his world travels. There were only three or four 
places I had ever asked him he had never been... He was a retired merchant 
marine (Worked in comm) then he went on to work 20 years for the CBC [ 
Canadian Communist Radio! :-') ] When I met him he was completely retired 
and spent his summers in Schomberg, Ontario and his winters in the Bahamas 
on a 33 foot Concrete sailboat.

He used to talk about the equipment he started with and the equipment he 
ended with at the CBC like it was 500 years between them. From 4 cases 
that required 2 guys to lift a case to one backpack he could sling around 
himself.

My how things change...

Cheers,

Shawn


JcJ Wrote:


Jim,

At least you have had the opportunity to get an "education" in 
computers. What I have learned has been through necessity and I don't do 
a very good job of learning.

The world of broadcast automation has changed drastically since I was 
first exposed to it in the sixties.

I need to visit one of the local radio stations and see how they are 
using automation, pc's, etc today. I am sure that it is nothing like my 
days of radio and television.

jcj