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I posted in a forum yesterday after reading about difficulties getting snb files to open on a PC. I don't think I have posted to this forum before then.

I used to work at NASA, for nearly 38 years, before retiring in 2013. I was a computer programmer for the vast majority of that time, using fortran iv, assembly language, and more recently, C and C++. I came out of college with a BS in electrical engineering in 1976, but only did electronics for a year or so and then switched to computer programming. I've been enjoying computer programming ever since, including macros for MS Word, Excel, Power Point, and Access, mostly the 2003 versions. I have recently started learning the macro language for Libreoffice, which is a bit different from the VBA for microsoft office.
 
Hi. From one programmer to another, welcome to Android Forums.
 
rbhall52 said:
I posted in a forum yesterday after reading about difficulties getting snb files to open on a PC. I don't think I have posted to this forum before then.
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Hello and welcome!
Awesome to have another member here @rbhall52 :)


rbhall52 said:
I used to work at NASA, for nearly 38 years, before retiring in 2013. I was a computer programmer for the vast majority of that time, using fortran iv, assembly language, and more recently, C and C++. I came out of college with a BS in electrical engineering in 1976, but only did electronics for a year or so and then switched to computer programming. I've been enjoying computer programming ever since, including macros for MS Word, Excel, Power Point, and Access, mostly the 2003 versions. I have recently started learning the macro language for Libreoffice, which is a bit different from the VBA for microsoft office.
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I change tires :)
 
rbhall52 said:
I posted in a forum yesterday after reading about difficulties getting snb files to open on a PC. I don't think I have posted to this forum before then.

I used to work at NASA, for nearly 38 years, before retiring in 2013. I was a computer programmer for the vast majority of that time, using fortran iv, assembly language, and more recently, C and C++. I came out of college with a BS in electrical engineering in 1976, but only did electronics for a year or so and then switched to computer programming. I've been enjoying computer programming ever since, including macros for MS Word, Excel, Power Point, and Access, mostly the 2003 versions. I have recently started learning the macro language for Libreoffice, which is a bit different from the VBA for microsoft office.
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I'd be interested to know what projects you worked on at NASA, if you're able to talk about it of course.
 
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I'd be interested to know what projects you worked on at NASA, if you're able to talk about it of course.
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I don't remember ever working on anything considered classified. I worked on a robotic system for spraying a coating on a large cylindrical piece of metal several feet in diameter. I also worked on the BATSE(burst and transient source experiment) part of the gamma ray observatory, which orbited the earth for a number of years. It was looking for gamma ray sources in outer space. Those are the two main projects that come immediately to mind. The BATSE software was the largest project I ever worked on that I completed. They did not always give you the time to finish things the way you wanted to finish them.

One of the more interesting things I had to do was once when I accidentally zeroed out an entire hard drive. I talked to my supervisor about it, and told him I was pretty sure I could recover the files on it. It took a bit of programming and about 2 weeks, but I was actually able to get the files back intact. They were fortran code, and I created a small program to read the drive one sector at a time and save the results to another drive. Everybody was happy after I did that recovery :).
 
dontpanicbobby said:
It was worth a try anyway. Too many NASA employees are Unsung Heroes.
You're an interesting dude. I hope you stick around. :)
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I'll be around here and there :). NASA is indeed an unsung group of people that create things for the space program that we would not otherwise have like we do right now. If not for NASA needing to shrink computers to fit inside of rockets to control the engines, there would have been much less incentive to shrink the computers, and it would have taken longer to develop the technology that we use every day now, that being just one example of probably hundreds.

If you would like to learn more, visit https://spinoff.nasa.gov/ and https://technology.nasa.gov/network to learn how NASA develops said technology to help companies solve their various manufacturing and technology problems, technology.nasa.gov , and how NASA technology spins off into many other products that we use every day, spinoff.nasa.gov . Some amazing stories there.

NASA hires the best of the best to enable them to do what they do. How else to be on the cutting edge of creating technology to send people into space and bring them back home safely? How else to try and develop technologies to better our lives here on earth? Between NASA, our universities, and the many, many companies in this country that all combine their efforts to create such technologies, we and the world would not have the many things to better our lives that we do have. Spread the news about the websites I mentioned. They are worth looking at.
 
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