Subject: Bigboard 1 - Jim B. Ferguson & Russel Smith Author: Enrico Lazzerini Date: 14 Feb 2012 9:15 pm Hi, perhaps the question might seem trivial, but anyone would know how to track Jim B. Ferguson & Russel Smith the persons who designed the Ferguson BigBoard 1 in 1980? Below some info i left on my website http://elazzerini.interfree.it/ Jim Ferguson, Russell Smith and I, Gordon Thompson, worked for a company called Automatic Vehicle Monitoring Systems (AVM Systems) in Fort Worth, Texas, for the development of automated systems for vehicles. Earlier in 1976, the AVM Systems called "Information Identification." Later in 1978 changed its name to "Gould Information Identification" and later in 1979/1980 "Automatic Vehicle Monitoring Systems" or "AVM Systems". AVM Systems shut down in 1985. We were in the years 1978-1981, when Jim and Russell went off to form their own company produces and sells BigBoard I, while I continued to work for the AVM Systems until 1984. Before the BiGboard I board, Jim and Russell designed a single board computer (SBC) for AVM Systems for Remote Base Station Controller (RBSC) and I designed a modem interface card for the RBSC. Jim then took the project of RBSC extending it in a single board computer, adding more memory, more I/O ports, video interface, all that in his spare time. He was still working for AVM Systems when developed at home BigBoard I. Jim was a pretty tall guy, mostly oriented towards the hardware and operating system of a computer. Many of us bought from him the BigBoard I card because everything was very expensive. Thanks in advance Enrico - Pisa - Italy
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