Introduction. 1

Early Days. 3

Glendale College. 3

L.A. State – First 1620. 6

Pasadena City College. 11

The Army. 15

Early Civilian Jobs. 25

Alton Associates. 25

Mason McDuffie. 26

Bank of America. 27

Breuners. 29

ITEL. 32

BofA Again. 33

Leaving IBM Mainframes Behind. 36

Calma. 36

Tandem.. 38

Sun. 44

MS2. 46

VERITAS. 47

VMWare. 47

Amazon Lab 126. 47

Apple. 47

Roku. 47

Personal Computers. 48

Pre-History. 48

Sol-20. 49

Franklin ACE. 64

NEC 8001. 71

IBM Clone. 73

TRS-80. 76

Macintosh. 77

From then to Now.. 79

OS Evolution. 80

Network Evolution. 93

PDAs. 94

Conclusion. 95