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HI THERE !!!
HI THERE !!!
Thank you for making it to my page. I am Charles Rogers but I go by Chuck. I grew up in La Mirada Ca. I graduated from La Mirada HS in 1981 and spent 2 years in the CCC fighting forest fires in northern California and cooking in central California. I then joined the US ARMY (1984) and spent 4 years as an Airframe Repairmen (68 GOLF) . Once I got out of the ARMY (1987) I went into Industrial Control and have been working in various technical capacities ever since.
I took a drafting class in high school and realized I had a knack for making drawings. I really enjoyed it so I took 3 periods a day in my sophomore and senior year (1979 - 1981). To which my teachers (Mr. Gardener and MR Hoffer) could not answer enough questions. We had Mechanical arm's , Dusting bags , Templates and pencil's. As a class we did part outlines and dimensions. We progressed in to layers , vellum and Ink.
WHY ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH DID I GET INTO CAD ???
WHY ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH DID I GET INTO CAD ???
After 2 years in the California Conservation Corps and 4 years in the ARMY I was working at a small engineering firm which used this new wiz-bang drawing software . . . . Auto Cad.
Once I had a chance to try ACAD I could see that I could use everything Mr. Gardener and Mr. Hoffer taught me. The methodology was the same. I was amazed !!!! I had found the way to combine my love for drawing and computer skills.
I have been creating CAD drawings professionally since 1989 but was very interested in PC technology before then.
About 1977 my father (an electrical engineer) bought an IMSAI 8080 kit. It was one of the first Personal Computers to be offered to the public We built it as a Father-Son project. I was 13 at the time and although I did not understand most of it my father was very enthusiastic about it. It took about a year to build and get working. Once operational it required allot of configuration to boot. There was NO BIOS or even Floppy's. The boot code had to be input one word at a time (that is why there are 16 switches on the front panel) , then it would read the operating system (CPM) via paper tape and later audio cassette. My father taught me how to input the startup code and thus I spent a lot of my youth booting the darn thing. Little did I know at the time how this technology would change the world.
I still build my own PC's today. Below are photos of my last build , a I9 - 10th Gen. It has 10 Cores , 20 Threads , 16 Gig of ram and a Terabyte hard drive. Also a Video card that can connect 4 Monitors at 4K resolution. Scary how far we have come.
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