Zenith-4

Part 5/9 of the Transcript from the interview conducted by Harvey Tassaly, interviewing former Databridge Programmer Josh Woodard. HT: "So if not the Zenith-1 Robots what did you work on?" JW: "Well like I said, I joined Databridge sometime during the spring of twenty... Twenty Seventeen." HT: "Right." JW: "I was brought on as one of the new batch of programmers for the Z5 project. (Woodard chuckles) The 'Calculators with hips' we called em." HT: (Tassaly chuckles) "For sure, go on." JW: "Yeah. They brought on lots of new programmers like myself around that time due to all the problems they were having, they couldn't quite get the calculations to become definitive. They wanted more variables to increase the scope of their predictive capabilities. But then, that just made their calculations go nuts. We got it done in early Twenty Twenty, right before lockdown so that was lucky. But that was really where lot's of us programmers really got our big break. Many of us were fresh out of university, doing what programmers three times our age couldn't. HT: "A nice feather in your hat." JW: "Now some those really cool former colleagues of mine are now getting paid 10k a day... And they're legends in that company now, I was too until I left. Names like Grisham, Cox, Bennett, Yadav... Even Davidson before he... Did what he did. Again I had my own reasons for leaving. New talent doing what the 'old guard' couldn't." HT: "So what was your parting gift to Databridge and the Zenith Project? You left in Twenty Twenty-three right?" JW: "I suppose the last thing I did was... Update the foundational systems of the Zenith-4 Models. Newer model lines were being developed, better technology and the Z4s were always like the 'trial run' when it came to updating systems for any other model. That's their purpose. I helped expand their code to fit their new expanded internal hardware. After that I think I lingered for a few more months before finally, tipping my hat and bidding farewell."