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leviset

Just joined this community. I’m a retired Pure Mathematician aged 70. I started my first IT job in 1979, programming an HP-97 Desktop Programmable Calculator and then in 1982 I was in the very vanguard of the PC Revolution working on a Sirius 1 computer running under CP/M 80 & 86 with an Intel 8088 & 8086 architecture.

Since retiring early in 2004 I’ve gone back to my early vintage programmable days using calculators like the HP-41CX, TI-59, Sharp PC-1500/A etc.

I’m fine on the Pure Mathematics and Algorithms side but rubbish on the application side of electronics - the main reason I’ve joined is to try and improve my overall EE skills

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  • Hi Dennis,

     

    Welcome to the group. I think you will find the mathematics side more important that ever currently. Many systems are digitising the analogue data and from there it is processed using Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques. You will find many interesting projects on this community that have very little electronics design - instead they focus on the software...and very impressive they are too. You'll see projects running various boards from the Arduino, Raspberry Pi and Beagleboard ranges - with a few external modules added the rest is software.

     

    I'm sure your existing skills will be very welcome addition to the community and hopefully you can learn from us and vice-versa.

     

    If there is anything you want to know, just start a discussion.

     

    Rod

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  • Hi Dennis,

     

    Welcome to the group. I think you will find the mathematics side more important that ever currently. Many systems are digitising the analogue data and from there it is processed using Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques. You will find many interesting projects on this community that have very little electronics design - instead they focus on the software...and very impressive they are too. You'll see projects running various boards from the Arduino, Raspberry Pi and Beagleboard ranges - with a few external modules added the rest is software.

     

    I'm sure your existing skills will be very welcome addition to the community and hopefully you can learn from us and vice-versa.

     

    If there is anything you want to know, just start a discussion.

     

    Rod

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