[Mgs] Time to brag a little...

[The Roxter]

Paul Root wrote:
> Congratulations Rick, and to your son.
>
> Rocky, I just can't see you at IBM. I served time at IBM in Kingston 
> as a contractor in the late 80s. As buttoned down as it was then I 
> just can't image how it was in the 60s. 
I got disgusted with the Music Biz and walked out in 1961. I went back to Tulsa for a few months and attended Tulsa Tech, studying electronics. I completed about half the course and learned enough to get a good job in basic research, running a high vacuum system, doing thin film deposition. The company folded. so I went to Canada and worked at the same sort of thing up there, working for CTS of Canada (Fairchild). When that petered out, I went to work for Litton's, doing Aircraft Inertial Navigation and Weapons Release Systems, then moved over to IBM, troubleshooting card machines and doing cabling on 360 Systems. I was good at it; I was one of two special troubleshooting techs in Toronto. We did the ones nobody else could figure out.

It was while I was in Ontario that I started racing an MGA and then a series of Minis. I went back in 1998, on the pit crew with Stevens Brothers Racing. I was disappointed that they had blacktopped the course at Mosport and covered up the groove my suspension cut across turn 8 when I threw a front wheel at about 90 mph. I was proud of that groove!   :)

-The Roxter
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