"I was born in Boston in 1934, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. My father was a hard working resident in psychiatry and my mother, an attractive young artist and teacher. They struggled together to pay the rent for a third floor walk-up.
  "At age 14, I developed a consuming interest in the field of electronics and I repaired radios for the local hardware store. In those years, electronics was a simpler, barren plain without transistors, integrated circuits, solid-state lasers, and all the rest. Two years later, I taught a series of courses for ham radio operators at Wllesley High for their Civil Defense program.
  "Upon graduation from high school in 1951, I married my high schoold sweetheart Joanne. The winter afzer enrolling in Ohio State University, we had a baby girl, Christine. Cheryl was born two years later. I majored in mathematics an worked at the Antenna Research Laboratory. Meanwhile, I became entranced with motorcycles and opened up my own motorcyle shop. That adventure failed within a year, however, and I then worked in the electronics industry to support my family. I continued to race bikes intermittently for the next twenty years.
  "By 1958, I was a graduate student at Ohio State and taught as an assistant instructor. It was during this time that I became involved with the free speech movement on campus and became editor of the Free Speech Press. I developed an interest in Socialism, and with the advent of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, joined the Socialist Workers Party. I have never since wavered from supporting the working class in the class war.
  ("I must note here that, a bit over twenty years later, I found myself in disagreement with the SWP on both practical and theoretical grounds. I left them and joined the Socialist Action, a group made up largely of former SWP members and young people who were thinking the same way I was.)
  "After graduate school, I moved to Cleveland, where I worked as an electronics engineer with the Hickok Electrical Instrument company. I had many technical successes there and was garanted several patents in the field of instrumentation and analog-to-digital converters.
  "I was so encouraged by my work in those years and by the observation that snow, slush, and heat could be avoided by simply moving westward, that I decided to move to Carlifornia to look for other intriguing job opportunities. In 1976, I joined Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to complete developement of the Apple II. The Apple II became the standard of the personal computer business and over 3 million were manufactured. At the same time, the company, Apple Computer, became multi-billion behemoth. I was the Chied Engineer and Vice President of Engineering during most the reign of Apple II. I am most proud of my contributions to the floppy disk, the switching power supply, and radio interfernece problems. I received four patents for my work and was ennobled with the title of "Chied Scientist" - whatever that my be. Amidst all the clamor and confusion of Apple's astonishing growth, my son Alan William was born. Six years later, after working what seemed to be sixteen-hour days and seven day weeks, I was exiled by new management - the fourth member out of five of the original Apple team to be retired or pushed out.
  "During this last period of my stay at Apple, I turned to ocean sailing. I love to sail thousands and thousands of miles with just one or two companions. Sometimes we're racing and sometimes we're just going from one speck on the globe to another speck on the globe. In 1987, myself and one companion entered the Osaka Cup race and sailed non-stop over 5,000 nmi., from south Australia to the port of Osaka in central Japan, the first American to finish and fifth overall. The previous year we wom the Pacific Cup race to Kauai. My boat is now receiving some TLC after 15 years in the water.
  "I hope to sail again soon and so some serious teaching. I'd like to teach mathematics and logic, and, perhaps to teach a review of some writings of Marx, Engels, or Trotsky."