Larry Burgher:
CLASS OF 1972
Helena High SchoolClass of 1972
Helena, MT
Montana State University Class of 1976
Bozeman, MT
Helena Middle SchoolClass of 1969
Helena, MT
Jefferson Elementary SchoolClass of 1966
Helena, MT
Larry's Story
Larry is from Helena, Montana. He is married. His schools include Helena High School, Helena Middle School, Jefferson Elementary School. He later attended Montana State University (Electrical Engineering). He works(ed) at Burgher Vision, Inc., Wesco, Montana Office of Public Instruction.
Larry's interests include Electronics, Programming. Music he likes includes Mozart, Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Roches. Movies he likes include Sci Fi, World War II. TV shows he likes include Maverick, The Huffington Post, Hardball with Chris Matthews.
One of Larry's favorite quotes is:"Is there intelligent life in the universe? No. Why would it be any different elsewhere in the universe than it is right here on Earth.".
More about Larry:"I began feeling an insatiable interest in electronics at age six, and began disassembling transistor radios and other electronics, but didn't manage to put any back together till I was about thirteen. This is when I began constructing an HO scale model railroad, which I automated with parts from the local salvage yard, making heavy use of telephone switching relays as SR flip flops, a circuit so rare that I believed I had invented it at the time, but found out many years later that it had been done before.
While preparing for a career in Electrical Engineering at Montana State University, I was required to take some computer programming courses and found I was a natural, mastering BASIC and FORTRAN in a couple weeks. So I moved on to dozens of other computer languages including numerous assembly languages, and discovered how to see how circuits would perform before building them using circuit simulation languages.
I continued designing and building computer circuits and began writing my own operating systems, assemblers, interpreters, compilers, while performing top secret duties ...Expand for more
as a cryptographic technician for the US Army Signal Corp on four continents, and was regularly called upon to do the impossible where others had failed.
After the military, I returned to my home town where I chanced across a job with state government where I encountered more machines of every size, quickly mastering them, and modifying them when I could get away with it. I advanced very rapidly, overtaking former superiors who had more credentials and degrees than me, but discovered that the higher up the ladder I climbed, the closer I came to the political officials at the top. When I got to the point where I was interacting with politicians almost daily who regularly demanded that I help push their partisan agenda, I resigned and joined the private sector.
While working for a small software development firm, I continued to encounter new machines and languages, and wrote dozens if not hundreds of systems for an ever-increasing array of customers, including a program that managed 2.2 billion dollars for a large investment pool. Whenever possible, I incorporated electronics and assembly language programming into my projects, but that became less and less frequent.
After leading the development of a widely-distributed, nationally-recognized software product and not getting a fair share of the proceeds, I decided to become my own boss, and have been on my own ever since. After building a modest following of loyal clients across several states, my wife and I left Montana to escape the cold weather, and moved to Las Vegas where we now enjoy ourselves immensely. My duties here include acting as Technical Director and Webmaster for the Las Vegas PC Users Group, and I am still a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and I regulary participate in the local dot NET and SQL groups".
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