All right, everybody listening.

Welcome back to dissecting popular IT nerds.

Today we have with us, Don Hammer on the show.

And Don, welcome to the show.

You've got, I would say, what, 20 plus years of

IT experience? All starting in the 80s, it's actually much longer than 2020 and just in

would be commercial IT, but starting back, you know, in your early 80s with computer mainframes,

Yuc 7 computers.

I've actually, in my history, seen core memory.

I've seen disk files measured in megabits and run by, run in a platter, 1,500 RPM.

With the hydraulics actually running disk access.

So some of those technologies were, you know, back then, you know,

60s technology still used into the 90s and naval submarines kind of interesting.

Original Golden Eye, 007 times, you know, not golden eye like like on nintendo so um so so yeah i got to

ask you then what what was your first computer as we always do um you know shoot

well the the first computer i worked in the navy was a yuck seven but for my own personal

uh you know and i started playing with computers,

it was a Commodore 64.

And is this after, is this after the Yuc 7 or is this, I mean, I'm still using, I'm still using Yuc 7.

Yuc 7 was a Navy mainframe used on when I retired in from the Navy in 2001 that same computer

obviously gone through some upgrades and some additions it was still being used in in 2001

when I retired from the Navy in the submarines I was on so so that's pretty cool give me an

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