Westerfield, Mike: - Mike started programming on a PDP-8 using a teletype terminal.
He is a PADI scuba instructor who lives in Albuquerque with his wife and cat, enjoying being an empty nester and spoiling his grandchildren..
Mike currently runs the Byte Works, an independent software publishing and consulting firm.
Since then Mike has developed numerous compilers and interpreters, software for mission-critical physics packages for military satellites, plasma physics simulations for Z-pinch experiments, multimedia authoring tools for grade schoolers, disease surveillance programs credited with saving lives of hurricane Katrina refugees, advanced military simulations that protect our nation\'s most critical assets, and technical computing software for iOS. when he started making more money from his sideline software company than from the Air Force. in Physics from the University of Denver, and was Working on a Ph.
D.
Air Force Academy in 1977 with a degree in Physics, earned an M.
S.
A slow learner, he graduated from the U.
S.
Born the same year as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, Mike made the mistake of getting an education instead of getting rich.
Two years later he finished ORCA/M, which went on to become Apple Programmer\'s Workshop, the Apple-labeled development environment for the Apple IIGS.
He wanted to write a chess program but couldn\'t find a good assembler, so he took a summer off to write his own.
As the personal computer revolution got going he sold his car and rode a bike for several months to raise cash to buy an Apple II computer.
Westerfield, Mike: - Mike started programming on a PDP-8 using a teletype terminal
