Jim Hawkins Software Development History


Software Language(s) Operating System Processor and/or Computer Company
Fourier series plotter BASIC Stand Alone HP Minicomputer Singer Corporate Research & Development Lab (CRDL)
IC chip tests BASIC PDP -11 disk operating system PDP-11/05 Singer CRDL
Silicon Wafer automated tests BASIC PDP-11 Disk Operating System PDP 11/05 Singer CRDL
Schmoo Plot for silicon wafers BASIC PDP-11 Disk Operating System PDP 11/05 Singer CRDL
Raw data reader abd disk driver PDP-11/05 Assembly Language PDP-11 Disk Operating system PDP 11/05 Singer CRDL
PDP-11 Dissembler (From machine language binary to Assembly language text) PDP-11/05 Assembly Language PDP-11 Disk Operating system PDP-11/05 Singer CRDL
Microwave oven control firmware Fairchild F-8 Assembly Language Standalone firmware on F-8 processor
Assembled on IBM-370
Fairchild F-8 Microprocessor Singer CRDL
Industrial Sewing Machine Sensing and Monitoring firmware Fairchild F-8 Assembly Language Standalone firmware on F-8 processor
Assembled on IBM-370
Fairchild F-8 Microprocessor Singer CRDL
Temperature monitoring for Solar Energy system Fairchild F-8 Assembly Language Standalone firmware on F-8 processor Fairchild F-8 Microprocessor Singer CRDL
Data collection and analysis software to process Solar Energy Data Fortran PDP-11/05 disk operating system PDP-11/05 Singer CRDL
Employee information and project code report program with database management. Wrote parts of code in overlays because of limited memory Singer System Ten Assembly Language Singer System Ten OS Singer System Ten Mainframe Singer CRDL
Bell system power supply test software including HP equipment drivers C Language LSX (Single user Unix for LSI-11) LSI-11 Microprocessor in PDP-11/03 Bell Laboratories
Learned the internals of UNIX and added new features to our single user version, Overlay Loading. Also studied UNIX task switching for multitasking. C Language and PDP-11 Assembly language LSX LSI-11 Microprocessor Bell Laboratories
BASIC Interpreter for Testing and Engineering contained extended BASIC language instructions to control and read hardware instruments. C Language One of the earlies BASIC interpreters to be portable to any sytem that could run C programs. Originally on LSI-11, but ported to PDP-11 and Bell System MAC-9 machines. I ported it to my home DOS machine. Bell Laboratories
Firmware for animated sprites on Disney Epcot Visitor Information system
using TI graphics processor and early touch screen.
C Language Standalone Compiled on DEC VAX 11/750 Bell Laboratories
Disassembler for new processor in the Bell Labs 3B family C Language UNIX operating system Compiled on 3B20 Bell Laboratories
Tape Backup software for Exxon Office System C Language Zilog Z8000 Compiled on VAX 11/780 Exxon Office Systems
Robotics firmware for TC2 Robotics automatic assembly line sewing system.
Implemented equations involving Newtons laws of acceleration and mass in C Language.
(Debugged in assembly language debugger)
C-Language Motorola 680X0 Compiled on 68000 Unix System TC2 Robotics
Wrote application to burn Motorola 680X0 directly from disk image on Unix System C-Language Motorola 680X0 Compiled on 68000 Unix system TC2 Robotics
AT&T System 75 Definity PBX telephone system debugging C Language 3B processor Compiled on Unix system AT&T Labs
Learned how the S100 bus works and wrote a sorting program on a Compupro computer.  C Language  8086  Compiled on Compupro operating system  Home Brew
Wrote DOS app to control shortwave receiver using COM port.
Wrote my own GUI.
C Language PC Compiled on DOS Home project
Health Insurance card reader and processing system (1991)
The beginning of insurance computer hell.
C Language Zahn Compiled on Unix System  
Consumer Point of Sale (POS) Terminal Software
Converted limited in-memory employee list software to e disk reading algorithm.
C Language  PC   Consumers Retail Store Lab
Windows Sales system (Seamless Sales system) C++ Windows Operating System Compiled on Windows System AT&T Labs
Emerging WEB Technologies Expert for Seamless Sales department at AT&T HTML, Java, Javascript, etc. Web browsers (1994)   AT&T Labs
Porting Payroll Data System (Process and print payrol for clients) DOS app to Windows app plus preparing for Y2K change C++ Windows PC Payroll Data Systems (PDS)
Underwater fiberoptic communications "pump" tests and new software for laser equalizer. C HP Linux   Tycom
 Wrote poco plugins for Autodesk Animator Pro to create animated photo effects on images
Also wrote pop plugin to create animated Mandlebrot Fractal on Autodesk Animator Pro
POCO   PC  PC Personal use 
Wrote Plugin for Autodesk 3DS MAX to make 4D Gears         
Currently rewriting my BASIC interpreter.
Current .exe binary and documentation available at:
BASIC