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I am indeed the author of that piece [Editors note - a reference in the LOCUS entry], but my time at MRSL was from July 4th, 1977 until I started my next job at STC (later Nortel) in Basildon, which I started on July 4th 1988. And ironically by July 4th 1999 (to keep that eleven-year progression going) I was at a stage of my life when a bigger change was in progress and I ended-up in Southern California, so crap, I've been working for thirty-five years on Wednesday!

Just to help you decide where /how I might contribute: Worked on the Swedish Transportable Operations Room (TOR - I guess a play on 'Thor') when I started, an air defence system, which is where I cut my teeth on the Locus 16 and the Intel 386. Spent some time on a radar evaluation unit for the CAA; Worked on the Martello S713 and S723 height-finding radars, was the s/w team leader on the former, spent many a night out at Rivenhall patching problems; Somewhere along, working for Alan Greaves (whom I very occasionally would see, though obviously much less frequently these days) we set up a new business unit, Data Systems Division (I think) and I recall working on a reverse-engineering project for a sister-company in Rochester (Kent, not NY!), retro-writing all their documentation for a Sea King dunking sonar system. Nightmare! Was a consultant on development of an update to the Displays at ScATCC; I don't remember what my final project was, but it was a mess and I was saddled with responsibility without authority. When STC asked me to join them, I was gone ... but overall it was good times.

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