Are you the Peter Jennings I knew?

Are you looking for me? Recently, it seems I have had a lot of people asking if I am the Peter Jennings they knew back when... I love the way Google has made it easy for old friends, colleagues and acquaintances to rediscover each other. If our paths crossed, I’d love to hear from you.

Peter Jennings is not an uncommon name. There are 861,000 hits on Google, and most of them are not me.

I am the Peter Jennings who:

• was born in Bedford, England, in 1950.
• went to Goldington Road School in Bedford in the 1950s.
• lived in Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
• lived in Welland, Ontario.
• lived in Niagara Falls, Ontario in the 1960s.
• went to John Marshall School in Niagara Falls.
• went to Princess Elizabeth School in Niagara Falls.
• built his first computer in 1961 using switches, relays and lights to do 4 bit arithmetic.
• went to A.N.Myer Secondary School in Niagara Falls.
• interfaced a surplus Model 15 teletype to a homebrew computer in 1965 and programed it to play chess openings.
• entered a lot of Niagara Regional Science Fairs.
• was a finalist at International Science Fairs and Canada-Wide Science Fairs.
• was licensed as VE3GEJ in 1965.
• who built a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer in the basement.
• studied Physics at McMaster University (BSc 1971).
• studied Physics at SUNY Stony Brook (MA 1972).
• studied business at McMaster University (MBA 1974).
• married Jane Barley in St Catharines (1973).
• lived in Toronto, Ontario in the 1970s.
• worked for Gulf Oil in Toronto.
• worked for Comshare in Toronto.
• designed the logo for the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE), The Thousand.
• was a member of TRACE, the Toronto Region Association of Computer Enthusiasts.
• wrote Microchess, the first computer game product.
• started Micro-Ware Limited in Toronto, the first PC software publisher.
• created Micro-ADE, a 6502 development system.
• created the Commodore ChessMate.
• created the Program Evaluation Analysis Computer. (PEAC)
• co-founded PEAC Inc in Toronto.
• co-founded Personal Software which became VisiCorp.
• was involved in the creation of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program.
• lived in San Jose, California.
• lived in Los Gatos, California.
• wrote VisiDex, an early free-form database for the Apple ][.
• was a venture capitalist, founding partner in Associated Venture Investors (AVI).
• was a founder of Gavilan Computer, the first laptop.
• was a founder of Vivid Systems. Limelight was the first portable PC projector.
• sailed the Med on Tusom, an 8 meter Catalac catamaran.
• who is VE3SUN.
• invented and patented the MagicNotch audio filter.
• who founded j.com in 1989 to market ham radio products - a too early dot com.
• invented the Ventriloquist digital voice recorder.
• who is AB6WM in the United States.
• created HamBase, the first electronic callbook.
• started this web site in 1993 to distribute his freeware and shareware.
• who is C31LJ and was C31LHJ and C30LEV.
• co-authored the Pocket Guide to World History.
• wrote VisiDex and J Notes for the C-Pen.
• was a member of the V31DX DXpedition contest team.
• created Cachet, a Netscape browser add-on utility.
• wrote DX Monitor.
• who is the IARU International Beacon Project Coordinator.
• flew Schweizer sailplanes at Sky Sailing when it was still in Fremont, California.
• flew Steve Snyder’s P-2 Paraplane in February 1983.
• has a passion for paragliding in exotic places.
• drives around Europe in his Romahome
• lives in Andorra.
• belongs to the CIA. The Club International d’Andorra.
• is a member of the Unió de Radioaficionats Andorrans.
• is a member of the Andorra Computer Club.
• who like to take pictures.
• spends his summers on Fairy Lake Island on Stoney Lake.
• spends his winters in California.
• is a member of the Northern California Contest Club.
• is an advisor to the Northern California DX Foundation.
• who is a docent at the Computer History Museum.

There are lots of pictures in the Photo Albums.