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25th Jubilee - VMEbus Technology

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Calendar Decoder: VME Personalities by Month

Month:


January

  • A - Marty Simon: Simon Group
  • B - Frank Hom: APW Electronic Solutions
  • C - AJ Shah: Force Computers
  • D - Ray Alderman: Executive Director of VITA
  • E - Warren Andrews: Editor-in-Chief, RTC Group
  • F - Eric Gulliksen: Venture Development Corporation
  • G - Jerry Krasner: Prognosticator of All Things Embedded, Embedded Market Forecasters
  • H - John Hill: Sun Microsystems, VITA Board of Directors
  • I - Jim Koser: Berg, Foxconn
  • J - Ben Sharfi: General Micro Systems, Inc.
  • K - John Keller: Military and Aerospace Electronics
  • L - Dick Somes: DEC, Force, Motorola, PICMG VP & Technical Director
  • M - David Lieberman
  • N - Valerie Andrew: ACT Technico
  • O - General Paul J. Kern: Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command
  • P - Pete Yeatman: RTC and Yeatman Group
  • Q - Tom Williams: RTC Group
  • R - Barbara Kalkis: Maestro Marketing & PR
  • S - John Metz: Metz International, Ltd.
  • T - Dave Bursky: Electronic Design
  • U - Rick O'Connor: Tundra Semiconductor
  • V - Hermann Strass: Technology Consulting
  • W - Andy Reddig: TEK Microsystems, Inc.
  • Y - John McHale: Military and Aerospace Electronics

February

  • A - VERSAbus-E Specification, foundation for VMEbus
  • B - First VMEbus Buyer's Guide, published by Iron Oak
  • C - Revision C of the VMEbus specification
  • D - First VITA Product Directory
  • E - Revision A of the VMEbus Specification
  • F - IEEE 1014 Version of the VMEbus Specification

March

  • A - Chris Eck: CERN
  • B - Tom Harkaway: Xycom
  • C - Wayne Fischer: Force Computers, now retired.
  • D - Eike Waltz: Schroff
  • E - Jack Regula: Ironics
  • F - John Black: Micrology pbt
  • G - Shlomo Pri-tal: Motorola
  • H - Mira Pauker: Philips
  • I - Paul Borrill: Sun Microsystems

April

  • A - Kim Rubin: Greensprings/SBS
  • B - Mac Rush: Motorola Embedded Communications Computing
  • C - Chau Pham: Motorola, retired
  • D - David Wolfe: Acromag
  • E - Olga Sinenko: RTSoft Real Time Software & Hardware House
  • F - Lou Franz: Dialogics/Intel
  • G - Tad Kubic: Dawn VME Products
  • H - Michael Munroe: Elma Bustronic
  • I - Keith Burgess: Mizar/Bluewave/Motorola, now at GECO

May

  • A - Pete Yeatman: RTC and Yeatman Group
  • B - Brigadier General Ted F. Bowlds: Deputy for Acquisition, Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC), Air Force Material Command (AFMC)
  • C - Rich Jaenicke: Mercury Computer Systems
  • D - Ted J. Glum: Director of the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA)
  • E - Ray Alderman: VITA

June

  • A - Joseph Kreidl: PEP Modular Computers
  • B - Wade Peterson: Silicore Corporation
  • C - Harrison Beasley: US Navy, Texas Instruments
  • D - Fred Rehhausser: Motorola, Force, Chorus, Sun Microsystems
  • E - Warren Andrews: RTC Group
  • F - Wayne Fischer: Motorola, Force, retired
  • G - Rick O'Connor: Tundra Semiconductor
  • H - Roland Chochoiek: Force Computers
  • I - Egon Gutengeber: Force Computers
  • J - Michael Humphrey: VITA
  • K - Debra Thompson: Acromag
  • L - Susan Roth: VITA

July

  • A - Inaugural Issue: Summer 1985
  • B - Fall 1985: How Revision C makes VME sparkle
  • C - Winter 1986: A backplane bus for open systems
  • D - Spring 1986: Metastability
  • E - July/August 1986: Message Passing
  • F - November/December 1986: Motorola takes aim at super mini computers
  • G - October 2001: VMEbus: 20 years old and ready to do battle
  • H - April 2002: VME Renaissance
  • I - August 2005

September

  • A - John Wranovics: Themis, RTC Group, Peritek, Curtiss-Wright
  • B - Bruce Crozier: Mizar
  • C - Elaine Burgess: Mizar
  • D - Jeff Wilhelm: Mizar
  • E - Wayne Stargardt: Mizar
  • F - Keith Burgess: Mizar
  • G - Wayne Fischer: Force Computers

November

  • A - Mike Hasenfratz: Micro Memory
  • B - Malcom Airst: Mitre
  • C - Jing Kwok: DY-4/Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
  • D - Zoltan Hunar: VITA Europe
  • E - Lym Hevle: VITA, retired
  • F - Dave Horton: Cypress
  • G - Dennis Terry: Heurikon
  • H - Kim Clohessy: DY-4
  • I - Elwood Parsons: AMP, Foxconn Electronics
  • J - Jim Koser: Berg, Foxconn