Fortunately, I left high end systems engineering in the early 10's. Faced a choice:
Level up and really commit, probably end up in a datacentre, or consultancy of sorts
, or...
ditch it all and do something else.
So, I went and did something else!
Literally cleared out the bunker full of sgi machines and several higher end PC's. I piled it on the front lawn and gave it to some guy who was absolutely stoked! I still grin. Those machines were well loved. No doubt about it.
I then went small. Back to my roots! Cleaned up my Apple //e and wrote some code, 6502 and, or 65816 acting as 65802 of course due to how the hardware works.
And banged around some on my Atari 800XL too.
Then a friend sent me the datasheet for the Parallax Propeller chip, and OH My!
Those things are fun, and I would easily call the P2 the Amiga of microcontroller!
And have pretty much stayed small since then. No regrets.
Embedded systems are a lot of fun, and my retro skills are entirely relevant.
Now, that is not to say vices are not a part of computers. They are. Deffo.
But, doing fun things is for sure a great alternative to medicating ones [insert it here] away!
Fortunately, I left high end systems engineering in the early 10's. Faced a choice:
Level up and really commit, probably end up in a datacentre, or consultancy of sorts
, or...
ditch it all and do something else.
So, I went and did something else!
Literally cleared out the bunker full of sgi machines and several higher end PC's. I piled it on the front lawn and gave it to some guy who was absolutely stoked! I still grin. Those machines were well loved. No doubt about it.
I then went small. Back to my roots! Cleaned up my Apple //e and wrote some code, 6502 and, or 65816 acting as 65802 of course due to how the hardware works.
And banged around some on my Atari 800XL too.
Then a friend sent me the datasheet for the Parallax Propeller chip, and OH My!
Those things are fun, and I would easily call the P2 the Amiga of microcontroller!
And have pretty much stayed small since then. No regrets.
Embedded systems are a lot of fun, and my retro skills are entirely relevant.
Now, that is not to say vices are not a part of computers. They are. Deffo.
But, doing fun things is for sure a great alternative to medicating ones [insert it here] away!