oldie backpacker
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Engineering |
| Occupation | retired from automation development |
| Location | Swansea, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Have always combined independent travel with a normal life style, from cycle touring on the continent as a schoolboy, to hitch-hiking into the polar circle in Norway when a student, to hitch hiking in the USA during my first job as an Electrical Engineer. Since our children flew Joan and I have taken the opportunity to travel widely in Asia and South America, firstly in a backpacking mode, but thankfully without the necessity to minimise cost, and now as joints decay we are reduced to pulling small wheelie bags instead, but still retain the urge to travel slowly by established local transport. Now over a decade into retirement I can look back serenely over a career, largely spent in the Steel industry with real-time process control and automation, which saw the changeover to computer and other digital techniques. I can only wonder at the vast vertical range encompassing electronics, software and telecommunications, and a horizontal one which spread from system design in all these areas, through installation to lifetime software maintenance. A scope no longer open to engineers since digital techniques became commonplace and very specialised. |
| Interests | travelling, photography, writing, languages, all ball sports, DIY, history of computers in automatic control, 'modern' jazz |
| Favorite music | Thelonious Monk, Bebop |