Harold Harrington

Wilson High School

Class of 1960

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First Name	Harold
Last Name	Harrington
Graduation Year	Class of 1960
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	WA
Country	United States
Occupation	Retired Computer System Architect + others
Married	Yes
About Me	Pizza delivery,TV station technician (closed circuit for Penn State with no idea what I was doing, but I had a studio, and feeds to 3 floors of teaching videos needed in two days), movie theater projectionist (while being harassed by the union), software developer, manager and developer of national USPS data center, network designer, computer design (the little internal bits and pieces inside that made them work), member of the IEEE group that created what you know as the standards that made the internet work (wave when you go past an Ethernet cable or router), technical consultant to many large companies for hardware, software, and fixing stupid. And I took out some time for the army and Vietnam. Other than that, I fiddled with other things. Early on, while working on being a 2nd year EE I got a satellite launch (1962) that replaced the instructor's version of the sensor system payload. Built a couple of devices that were essentially the basis of what we know as CT scans and MRI. I was not the innovator, just the tool maker. Fixed many strange things over th...(read more)