![]() ![]() ĭuring this period, he also worked as an engineer and disc jockey for KKUP in Cupertino, California and adopted the countercultural styles of the time by wearing long hair and smoking marijuana. He also attended De Anza College on a part-time basis through 1972. He moved to Silicon Valley and briefly worked for National Semiconductor as an engineering technician and at Hugle International where he worked on early designs for a cordless telephone. ĭraper was honorably discharged from the Air Force as an Airman First Class in 1968. In 1967, while stationed at Charleston Air Force Station in Maine, he created WKOS (W-"chaos"), a pirate radio station in nearby Dover-Foxcroft, but shut it down after a legally-licensed radio station, WDME, objected. While stationed in Alaska, he helped his fellow service members make free phone calls home by devising access to a local telephone switchboard. Īfter taking college courses, Draper enlisted in the U.S. He was frequently bullied in school and briefly received psychological treatment. As a child, he built a home radio station from discarded military components.
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