Standard Computer, 1966-1967

In about May of 1966, I left IBM and went to work for a computer startup called Standard Computer.  They started out in Phoenix, because the tech guys involved had worked for GE there, and were into designing mainframe computers for GE that would, in addition to other things, emulated IBM computers.  I spent the summer of 1966 in Phoenix for about 2 months.  Hotter than hell.

The money guys were from IBM and SoCalif.  The guy who recruited me to Standard was Fred Howden, who had also hired me at IBM in 1962.  So at the end of that summer, they relocated the computer to a facility in Santa Ana (OC). For about the next 10 months or so, I car pooled from Pasadena each day with 2 or 3 other guys who went to work for Standard.  That’s why I was getting home each night very late during that time.

Then in about June or July of 1967, Leslie and I bought the house in Newport Beach, and we moved.  We did not sell the Pasadena house right away.  We rented it to a couple on a rent-with-option-to-buy, and they did buy it about a year later.