Author Information
Steve Traugott taught himself BASIC while standing up in
Radio Shack in front of a TRS-80 Model I. At Paradyne he was
a modem internals technician when modems were more expensive
than cars, and dabbled in COBOL on an IBM/370 clone he built
behind his desk. He decided to stop all of that when
Challenger exploded within view of his office, and became an
F-15 and AC-130 gunship crew chief in the U.S. Air Force to
gain a better understanding of the aerospace industry. After
realizing that aerospace needs better computing, he returned
to civilian life at IBM to port OSF/1 to their mainframe
family, worked on the last releases of System V UNIX at
AT&T in 1993, and experienced DCE at Digital Equipment
Corporation. He became a senior architect, then Vice
President of trading floor infrastructure engineering for
Chemical and Chase Manhattan banks, then escaped from New
York for a contract at Cisco Systems. He has now found a home
in the supercomputing branch of NASA Ames Research Center, in
Silicon Valley.
Joel Huddleston also taught himself BASIC while standing
up in Radio Shack in front of a TRS-80 Model I. He began his
computer career at Geophysical Services, Inc. operating a
TIMAP II computer that still used punched cards for job
entry. After a distinguished and lengthy career as a college
student and part-time programmer/systems administrator at
Texas A&M University, Mr. Huddleston entered the "Real
World" when he discovered that students cannot be tenured. As
a computer consultant for SprintParanet, Mr. Huddleston
worked for such diverse firms as CompUSA, Motel 6, and Chase
Manhattan Bank on projects ranging from a 100 seat
Banyan/Netware migration to the design of 800+ seat Solaris
trading floors.
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