While exploring the saturday paper on sunday, I came across an interesting article about the origin of cyber hackers.
When I was growing up my grandfather use to have a large model HO railroad setup in his basement year round. Then when I was in the 5th grade he gave it to us for our basement.
I thought the coolest thing was all the wires and the controls that made everything work – and the possibilities it brought. I loved how you could easily rewire something and create all sorts of cool effects.
Eventually working with trains led to much other “hacking” of other electronic pieces of equipment and even several electrical creations. Which with several dots in between, dropped me in the fields of interest that I am currently entangled with.
My ‘Work’ Bench:
One of the many light boards. Several have said this the safest looking one I’ve created…
So when I saw this article I thought it was ironic that hackers had there origin with model trains, because that is how I got my interest in electronics and computers.
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