11/8/10

Flagstaff Engineering

When I was a kid my dad worked for a company called "Flastaff Engineering"
It was this crazy high tech company. They started the company working out of a storage shed.  I remeber going down to the storage unit and folding cardboard boxes.  I also remember dumpster diving in the dumpster outside for large pieces of Gortex (Gore was a small compnay back then and used the same dumpster).  At some point the comapny became larger and from what I remember they were quite profitable.  Hard to believe you could make money manufacturing devices that copied 8 inch floppy disks to 5& 1/4 inch floppy disks.  I found these pictures last night of a comercial they shot out at lake Mary.  Some sort of advertisement about throwing out that old "Boat Anchor" of a computer and purchasing a newer model. 

Ever wonder why Dad had some back problems?


Whew!  I need to rest a second before I try to throw this thing!
I really wanted to see a splash, but this is all I have.  : (
I wonder if they left that thing on the bottom of Lake Mary?