Jon Hildrum

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I'm 55 years old married and have three kids. My wife's name is Carol. We have been married for almost 31 years. My daughter <oldest >   graduated last year with degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Washington. She just finished her first year of graduate studies in Computer Science at University of California Berkeley. My second oldest Boy) is a Senior in the Business School at University of Washington. He has completed his degree requirements for his business degree (accounting) and is now working on his degree in information systems. He is also on the U of W  X-country and track teams. The youngest just graduated from  High School. He will be attending University of Washington in the fall.

Me <who cares anyway>, I'm working for the Boeing Company as an engineer (Associate Technical Fellow) designing and building commercial airplanes and have been for the last 33 years. My present responsibilitie includes design, development and production of Avionics system for all Models of Boeing airplanes. Presently. I'm working with weather Radar, turbulence and wind shear detection.

I joined MSN in the early spring <late winter> of 1995 as a beta previewer. I'm still beta testing Microsoft products. I have been on the net since the mid 80's.  I have also been supporting Microsoft sponsored bulletin boards and newsgroups for the last 4 years providing assistance and help to other users. For my help Microsoft appointed me as a MS MVP (Most valuable Professional).

I enjoy playing with computers - hardware or software. I try any beta or alpha for that matter, which I have access too, that appears interesting, A little overclocking and messing around with hardware configurations now and then. I was a beta tester for MSN 1.05, MSN 2,  MSN 2.5 and Win98 and also for win98SE.

Presently. I'm playing with my little home LAN with an Win200 beta 3, a couple of win98 computers and a Redhat Linux.  

PS: I did develop a reputation as the worst typist around during my time in on MSN during the early WIN95 beta days.

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