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A Garage Story

Converting garages into
creative technical spaces
is a beautiful thing.

Garage life was great. Four kids grew up in and around the garage, all are tech industry professionals today. 

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The Games

Truth be told, underpinning our technological interests was electronic gaming.

Commodore 64

Commodore Amiga

PC Gaming

On the networking side, we experienced everything from pulse dialing C-64 modems, to the thrill of an ISDN circuit. :)

Alex, the oldest ran Wildcat BBS's at an early age.

For a BBS at the radio station we used a TRS-80 running "Minibin" BBS. No hard drives, all from 5.25 floppy disks

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Fuel of Invention

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A well stocked Fridge

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Come Into My Dream Foggy
00:00 / 05:34
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Red Vines

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Pizza!

Innovations from the garage.

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In the 1990's having fiber optic linked RAID arrays was "interesting"

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In-Store Listening Stations

Pre-Internet, during the era of brick and mortar music stores, we designed and prototyped in-store music previewing/listening products.

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In 2000 we sold the garage based business to Real Networks. 
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Though hard to see, in the front is a 3 foot row documents necessary to sell your garage to a public company.
We tear down the garage, and remodel the home, creating a much larger development facility.  Lesson learned: Be careful what you wish for.
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Devices were manufactured and assembled at Shipper & Company in Ballard.
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Prototyping Fun
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In 2001 we return to the radio industry

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The first RDS Message Management System
written by (Ausio's) Andy Jacobs at the age of 16

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TRE was eventually sold to Broadcast Electronics in 2005

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