John Harmon Myers, son of William Denver Myers
My High School and College Days WebPage is at:
http://simonkentonleescreek1960.weebly.com/john-myers.html
My Standard Oil Office. Left Photo: looking in from the office doorway towards the window that overlooked a patio that was built over the lobby. Note the large computer software listings binders and pull-out drawers for computer punched cards containing software. Right Photo: looking from chair towards window onto hallway. Note the photos on the wall of offshore drilling platforms - the major Engineering project I was working on - computer software to design such platforms so that they did not break or sink.
Below: Article about the new Computer Technology in use at Standard Oil - November 1967.
Article about the new Computer Timesharing Technology in use at Standard Oil. November 1967.
The highlight of working at Computer Sciences was a Marketing Success Award trip to the above hotel in Bermuda.
After working at Standard Oil and Computer Sciences, I formed my own computer software company. We created computer software for managers. The software was licensed to companies like the IBM Service Bureau Company shown below. I gave about 40 of the above described seminars. IBM personnel gave many additional such seminars; usually after seeing me give the seminar in their city.
Below is an article I wrote for the Ohio State University Engineer magazine. November 1965.
In the Summer of 1964, I worked at Ford Engineering and Research in Dearborn Michigan on computer software for designing truck drivelines. Many months after that, I was asked to give an Engineering presentation to Ohio college Engineering students on that technology and Ford nicely allowed me to give a verbal partial presentation on that work.
While I was at Ford, the experimental vehicle shown below, "Big Red", was one of the research projects.
Unveiled at the 1964 World Fair, it was a 96 ft long, 13 ft high super-truck powered by a gas turbine engine.
The engine delivered 600 HP and had a range of 600 miles.
The problems were:
1. Excessive heat
2. Poor fuel mileage
3. Size of the gas turbine engine
It never went into production.
Historic video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODsl0-oW0Q
Unveiled at the 1964 World Fair, it was a 96 ft long, 13 ft high super-truck powered by a gas turbine engine.
The engine delivered 600 HP and had a range of 600 miles.
The problems were:
1. Excessive heat
2. Poor fuel mileage
3. Size of the gas turbine engine
It never went into production.
Historic video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODsl0-oW0Q
In the Summer of 1963 at Shell Oil in New Orleans, I worked on computer software for the design of offshore oil drilling platforms. The photo above shows how the platforms look underneath the upper man-machine working decks above.
1965 Pontiac Convertible similar to my car I had in San Francisco.
Something I would not do in these times. In my young adult life, I was a San Mateo County Reserve Deputy Sheriff as described in the article in the center. At the right under the yellow rules book is a log for one of the Jail shifts I worked. Click on the Jail log to make it bigger for easier reading. I learned that most people in Jail are not nice. Outside of Jail duty, we Reserve Deputy Sheriffs tended to be the second person in a patrol car at night. In case you are wondering, I carried a Smith&Wesson 4" barrel 357 Magnum.
Ohio State University Graduation Ceremony - June 1965.