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An Alabama Boy and the Birth of Silicon Valley - The Autobiography of Ernest Jerry Collins (Paperback)
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An Alabama Boy and the Birth of Silicon Valley - The Autobiography of Ernest Jerry Collins (Paperback)
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Few people would expect that someone born in the small town of
Gadsden, Alabama during the Great Depression would end up being
involved in everything from the US Navy to the Atlas II ICBM
missile, but Ernest Jerry Collins did just that. After serving in
the US Navy as an Electronics Technician, he used the GI Bill to
earn his Bachelor and Master degrees in Physics. His career
included working at a small TV repair shop, Convair-Astronautics,
Electro Instruments, American Systems, Teledyne, Hewlett-Packard,
Fairchild, Technology Development Corporation, Teknekron, Systems
for Automatic Test, and Spectrum Solutions. At Fairchild he worked
on LED products and the A7 Corsair jet fighter for the US Navy. His
HP career began in the Dymec Division with RF and Microwave Test
Sets, and included the HP 2115A and HP 2116A minicomputers, the
HP2590B Microwave Frequency Converter, as well as the HP5100A
Frequency Synthesizer. Challenges in delivering complex integrated
products led HP to create the HP Systems Division, where he worked
on test systems for the Royal Swedish Air Force's JAS-37 Figgen jet
fighter. At Teknekron he helped develop a banknote sorting machine
dubbed "The Money Machine" for Citibank.
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