Ferranti? Re: Modern Electronics (was Re: List charter mods & headcount... ; -))

From: ed sharpe <esharpe_at_uswest.net>
Date: Sun Jun 20 13:28:00 2004

Ferranti?
 they also made computers... we have some stuff on them around here
somewhere....

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From: "Joe R." <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
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Subject: Ferranti? Re: Modern Electronics (was Re: List charter mods &
headcount... ; -))


> At 10:34 AM 6/20/04 +0100, Rob wrote:
> >
> >At 04:47 20/06/2004, William Donzelli wrote:
> >
> >> > People get too specialized these days.
> >>
> >>These day, you have to be specialized. There is little in the market for
> >>"jack of all trades" EEs. Those days are gone, except in very small
> >>companies doing fairly simple devices.
> >>
> >
> >Sadly this is true in computing as well. I don't have a degree, the only
> >college I went to was a technical college, one day a week sponsored by
the
> >company I was working for as an apprentice (Ferranti, may they rest in
> >peace).
>
> What happened to Ferranti? We used to use one of their RADARs on the
> system that I worked on but I haven't heard anything about them since the
> program was cancelled.
>
> FWIW I used to be like you but I get feed up with being stuck in low
> paying jobs while the educated idiots made twice as much money as I did
but
> couldn't do the work and I had to do my job and theirs too. I finally went
> back to college and got a degree (two actually). My salary tripled after
> that. I hate to say it but it was probably the best thing that I ever did
> career wise.
>
>
> Joe
>
>
>
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