BILLTHOMPSON.US

I've been interested in electronics since I was a kid. In the 1950's I had a pretty good collection of old radios, record players, and televisions and I spent countless hours tinkering with them to learn how they worked. This was in an era before any of this stuff was cool. I struggled through high school and went on to higher education at Clarkson College and R.I.T. That didn't work out, I left school, and for a while I worked at WHAM radio as a "broadcast engineer." Then I moved on to General Dynamics Corporation, a large defense contractor, which was interesting. There were some really brilliant engineers, some of them great mentors, and we worked on technologies that were way ahead of the time. I got to see the first integrated circuits, both digital and analog, and worked with small computers long before they arrived in the commercial sector... In the late 1960's I left General Dynamics and began messing with live music and sound. One day I formed a business partnership called..

Also known as: Bill Thompson