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Developing software since 1967. Starting with IBM 1401 SPS and Autocoder assembly languages, Univac 1108 COBOL, Honeywell 800 COBOL, Univac 9300 BAL, Burroughs 6500+ COBOL, Burroughs 6500+ Algol, Burroughs 6500+ NEWP, Burroughs TC500 TCL, Burroughs 1700 UNCL, HP3000 SPL, HP3000 COBOL, HP3000 Pascal, VB3, VB4, VB5, VB6, VB .NET. I’m retired. When I started my career, programming projects consisted of plugging wires into plug boards to create punch card processing applications to be run on electrical accounting machine like the IBM 402, 407, 085, 088, 514, 519, etc. From there, I moved to writing SPS and Autocoder applications on an IBM 1401 with 4K of memory eventually upgraded to 16K of memory. After many years of migrating my skills to various languages on various hardware platforms (Univac 9300, Burroughs TC500, Burroughs 1700, Burroughs 6700, Burroughs 6800, Unisys A12, HP3000), I became an Information Technology Director where I didn’t need to program anymore. Starting in 1996, I volunteered my time with a local community cable television organization and built some applications to help them run their operations. Originally in Clipper Summer 1987 and later Clipper 5.2, I migrated and enhanced those applications to VB .NET 2003 in 2003. I retired from my full-time job in 2010 and moved to CT in 2011. Since then, I have continued to support that MN community cable tv organization's applications. In 2013, I migrated the VB .NET 2003 Solution to VB .NET 2012 so that it can run on 64-bit computers and interact with Microsoft Office 2010. In mid 2013, I developed a VB .NET 2012 application for them to download election results data from the MN Secretary of State's web site, format the results and send them to a VizRT character generator for on-air display. In 2019, for my CT town, I developed a VB .NET/SQL Server application using Microsoft's WebView2 control and the HTML Video tag to automatically schedule and play town meeting recordings on the town cable TV channel.
