Business Quest

Welcome to everyday adventures in my business life, including thoughts and feelings about a world within which all things are connected. This QUEST is a JOURNEY to share knowledge, a JUNKET to share enjoyment, and often times simply an OUTING among old friends and new acquaintances.

About Me

My Photo
Name:
Location: Hockessin, Delaware, United States

To Myers-Briggs I'm an INTJ on the cusp of an E. A war-orphan, I was raised an only child by my mother. Born into a family of engineers and inventors, I naturally gravitated to engineering; model railroading at age 5. By the time I left high school the railroad was well automated (back when mechanical relays and vacuum tubes prevailed.) Home was Gary, Indiana and while attending Purdue University I majored in Electrical Engineering, worked part-time and summers as a motor inspector at the Inland Steel 80" Hot Strip, where I found the air conditioning requirement of early automation equipment to be personally beneficial. I joined the DuPont Corporation as a Design Engineer and moved to Waynesboro, VA. (where in 1969 I automated the 1929 Acetate Chemical process using a Digital Equipment PDP 8E computer supervising five PDP14 industrial controllers -- the computer was programmed using a Teletype machine and paper tape!) I also had the pleasure of an assignment in Londonderry NI in 1973 followed by a move to Charleston, SC in 1976 to construct a fully automated polyester fiber facility (complete with industrial robots). But enough about me...

Thursday, October 27, 2005

A CCTV Configuration Wizard

Fairfield Electronics is a CCTV consumer site that contains a unique "specification wizard". You may wish to check it out to see if it enables you to choose components for your CCTV system. It's not perfect, but it is heading in an interesting direction and it might be useful to small commercial customers such as convenience stores, who often desire a "ball park" estimate of costs for budgeting purposes before they're willing to contact a supplier. Could such a wizard fit into our website?

posted by George | 9:47 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger George said...

Thank you for your very informative comment. I ask questions like this because it is all too easy for me to go down a "garden path" with an idea that looks attractive. I very much appreciate the opinions of those who can look at this from a different perspective. I'll be interested to see where this "wizard" concept appears in the web plan so it's not forgotten when the plan goes to the development.

Monday, October 31, 2005 9:57:00 AM  

Post a Comment

<< Home