I was born to Letitia and Dale Miller (the year was 1945).

I don't remember much of the first 5 years, except my father flew U Control model air planes.

My first formal education was Kindergarten at Elmwood High School, Elmwood Nebraska.

After Kindergarten I went to Fairview Country school for the next two school terms. Fairview was the school district I was growing up in. It was a rural one room school house.

A state of flux in the local school districts had Elmwood High School absorbing Fairview in 1953.

I followed that with Elmwood High School with grades 3 through 12. In those days one school by the fall of 1953. At that time Elmwood High School handled Kindergarten through 12^th grade.

I graduated from 8^th Grade witch was part of primary school at that time.
I spent the next 4 school terms in High School (by the way: I graduated from High School in 1964), I was 18 years old. A boy that had the experience of brick laying, pouring concrete, carpentry, mechanic, and farming. I was confused.

I was a fortunate young person, my parents let me have some time off from school. In the fall of 1966 I enrolled at Nebraska Vocational Technical School. I studied Electronics at the associate level. The electronic studies were laid out in a 6 quarter study program. I graduated in 1967 and was able to get a job with Hewlett Packard, Loveland, CO division.

This was the time of the Viet-Nam war and one way to avoid the draft was to go to school some more. My parents wanted me to avoid the draft. I left Hewlett Packard and went back to school at Kearney State College at Kearney Nebraska. My major was math and my minor was physics. I met the young lady Madeline that would become my wife. We were married in April of 1969. I left Kearney State College after only two terms to go to work to support my new family.

In the summer of 1969 (July) I went to work at Hewlett Packard, Loveland, CO. I worked for Hewlett Packard for the next 22 years. Madeline and I started with a mobile home, had two children and moved into our house Christmas 1972. During the 22 years at Hewlett Packard as an Electronic Technician I helped raise our two children, enhanced my electronic knowledge with EE201 at CSU, learned to program computers. I even worked to rewire the lights so half the lights could be turned off. The computer programming used the languages: hpl, Basic, Fortran. I left Hewlett Packard in 1991.

To fill unemployed time I did some contract work and eventually landed at Advanced Energy,Ft. Collins, CO as an engineering technician. I left Advanced Energy in 1993.

Again I filled unemployed time with some contract work (including some data-base programming) and eventually landed at Quality Test Services, Inc located in Loveland, CO. There I was primarily an Electronics Technician, Customer Service for HP-3065 (board test system) and otherwise a Jack of all trades.

Now during the 30 odd years I have worked I helped raise two children and buy a home, become a Amateur Radio Operator. In the process I became some-what familiar with a variety of computers including the HP3000, HP1000, and the Personal Computer (that IBM initially introduced).\