Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Under Serv, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry. I'm your host Andrew

Jollina. With me this week is Dave Platt, president of Rolling Thunder

computing. Dave, welcome to the show. Thank you very much Andrew. Always a pleasure to be here.

Always a pleasure to be talking to my friends at Syrics again.

It is an honor to be able to spout here.

On a potentially historic election day.

Yes indeed. Although, I don't know. potentially historic election day.

Yes indeed, although I don't know they say they're all historic.

Which elections have you ever been to?

It was not say oh the most important one of our time yeah since the since the last one and until the next one.

So fair enough.

Well, let's start off with some history.

I understand you got interested in computers playing Star Trek

on an old digital equipment system.

Yes, it was a deck PDP 10.

Back at Colgate University, the fall of my freshman year.

And you could play Star Trek.

You could press number five to fire photon phasers or

rear photon torpedoes. I can't quite remember, but you would type in numbers.

And the phasers or the photon torpedoes, you could head toward the enemy at warp speed or away and wow that was just the coolest thing in the

universe and that inspired me and I just started hanging around the computer center and then I wanted to

write a better game I wanted to add some features to the game and stuff like that.

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