ENIAC Day 2020

Yeah, my career path has me working plan B.

Automation support, computers, networks, hardware, software, media ... you know the drill.

Having started quite early in the 'information age' I predate the personal computer by about a decade.

In that beginning of my career, there were minis and mainframes but not much in the way of microcomputers.

These were mostly consumer models such as your commodore 64, tandy color computer, and a few breadboard style LED byte display models which were not really for the uninitated.

In fact a scant month after purchasing a DEC VT-100 (Robin) CP/M conversion package the IBM PC was released and obsolescence was all I really had at that point.

It is my duty to make sure that the operations go smoothly for my assigned areas. I have a number of side interests which also come into play. They all need me.

Today is ENIAC Day, which celebrates the world’s first computer.

On the tenth of February in 2011 the Philadelphia jurisdiction declared that February 15, 2011 as ENIAC Day. This correpsonds to the 65th anniversary of the unveiling of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC).

ENIAC is the world's first general-purpose electronic computer and was developed at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.

Thus began what was to become my 'plan b' as it were. I'm very fortunate to have been able to embark on it when 'plan a' became no longer feasible in my existence.

Happy ENIAC Day to you.