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| #1 20010521 Right out of the Marine Corps and right out of my apartment in Santa Ana, near LTA, I came to Yucca Arms in Bellflower. I had a job at Douglas Aircraft. I had a ten speed bicycle to get to work five miles away. The apartment was 110 dollars a month and had piped in music. In four months I saved up enough for a down paynment on a '66 Chevelle Malibu. In five months I got fed up with the bureaucratic procedures at Douglas A/C. I think my parting words were: Someday you'll just be a part of McDonnell. Then I got a job with RCA Service Company as a computer technitian, as a customer support rep, wearing a sport coat and carrying a briefcase full of tools and T & E forms to keep filled out. Then I met Janet. Then we got married. Then we moved to Monte Bello |
| #2 20011202 But before I met Janet and after I was no longer a Douglas Aircraft employee, I got a job with RCA Service Company for 110 dollars a month. ( maybe my rent was 90 dollars a month). Right away in the middle of winter, I was sent to New Jersey for a few hundred hours of training on current computer technology fundamentals and corporate specifics of the RCA 301 computer and periperals. They didn't impose vacuum tube theory on me and the 301 didn't have any integrated circuits, only transistors. The memory was either 20K or 40K, magnetic core. This also included training on the IBM 330 card /reader punch. After my initial training, I was sent to work at RCA's thin films center in Van Ives, California, a commute of 50 miles. Bellflower was 20 miles south of LA, and Van Nuyves was thirty to the north.. |
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