Chas Gilmore joined the Heath Company in 1966 as a design engineer in the company’s Scientific Instruments group. By 1976, he was director of engineering for Heath’s technical products, which included amateur radio, instrumentation, marine, automotive, and weather products. This article, Part 3 of a series, includes portions of an interview I conducted with Gilmore in October. This article picks up Gilmore’s narrative starting in 1976 and includes … Read More → "The Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 3: The Microcomputer Kit Era"
My guest this week is Adam Tilton, co-founder and CEO of Driver! Adam and I discuss how Driver’s new AI-powered platform can help you navigate code, organize your assets and sync codebases with ease. We also investigate the benefits of automated updates, unified search and language specialization included in their platform and the role that reusable templates play in Driver’s AI-powered platform.
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Back in the day, when computers ran standalone and there was no such thing as networks, I used to be reasonably confident that I had at least a vague understanding as to what was going on. Silicon chips talked to other silicon chips and circuit boards talked to other circuit boards using electrical signals travelling over copper wires. If you wanted to send a message over longer … Read More → "Intelligently Transporting Electrical and Optical Signals"
Chas Gilmore joined the Heath Company in 1966 as a design engineer in the company’s Scientific Instruments group and worked at the Heath Company on and off for more than two decades, eventually becoming VP of product development, marketing, and sales. This article includes portions of an interview I conducted with Gilmore in October. It covers the heyday of pre-computer Heathkits in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Read More → "The Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 2: The 1960s through the mid-1970s"As is often the case, I’m amazed by how so many things seem to be interrelated and interconnected. I’m sorry… I feel an aside coming on… I cannot help myself… just saying “interconnected” reminds me of the book “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency,” which was written by the late great Douglas Adams.
As you may recall, Dirk is an unconventional … Read More → "There’s Exciting News on the Multi-Modal AI SoC Front"
If you came of age in the 1960s or 1970s and then later became an EE, chances are you’re more than casually acquainted with Heathkit. Many engineers started their budding careers by building one or more kits made by the Heath Company. I certainly did. When I stumbled across a brief interview with Chas Gilmore, who joined the Heath Company in 1966 as a design engineer and … Read More → "The Rise and Fall of Heathkit – Part 1: Early Days"
