Dave was born in Pennsylvania on August 6, 1932. When he was sixteen, Dave's parents moved to Los Angeles, which has been, until recently, his home since except for a four-year enlistment in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean war.

After his graduation from Los Angeles High School in 1950, Dave studied illustration at Art Center College of Design. He remained an art student until the Korean War interrupted his studies.

An enlistment in the Air Force during the war brought two career choices to this aspiring artist. He was offered training as a tail-gunner in a bomber or as an electronic technician in the space program. He chose the latter.

After nine months of schooling he was stationed at what was then called Cape Canaveral (now Kennedy) in Florida. After completion of some additional Florida-based schooling, he was sent to the Bahamas. For a year he ostensibly participated in missile tracking duties. In fact his time was mostly spent in drinking rum and skin diving – the missiles ended in the Snark-filled waters of the Atlantic off the Florida coast.

Before his stay in the Bahamas, Dave married his childhood sweetheart, Jane. He had met Jane while a student in Trenton N.J. High School in 1948.

After his return to the States, the couple moved to New Mexico where Dave was stationed at Alamogordo Air Force Base -- home of the new space program. Dave was a member of the research team working on this new technology. After almost three years of marriage, the couple was divorced.

On discharge from the Air force, Dave returned to California where he again studied art. He reintroduced himself to Lorraine whom he had known in high school. They fell in love and were married in 1956. The couple had five children, four of which still live and who are scattered across the United States. As the first child arrived, Dave decided to change his career field from art to physics. He began as an Electronic Technician for Hughes Aircraft. Over the years, study helped him advance until he was a Staff Scientist at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach.

Having learned FORTRAN I in 1959 while at General Dynamics, Pomona, Dave branched into the Data Processing industry by transferring to McDonnell Automation Company (McAuto.) He worked at McAuto for four years when he experienced a layoff. He decided to become an independent contractor. Within a year, a client offered him a position as Data Processing Manager. Eventually he became Director of Software to a Matsui Manufacturing owned company.

In 1981 Dave and Lorraine were divorced after almost 26 years of marriage. The couple remained friends until her death in 1998 from cancer.

Dave semiretired and became a full time Data Processing Instructor. While teaching, he met and married Peggy. Peggy eventually found drugs more interesting than marriage so, after two years, the couple were divorced.

In 1969 Dave became ill. The diagnoses gave him a 95% chance of dying within six months. He accumulated a number of interesting scars while a patient at Cedars Sinai and City of Hope Hospital. Dave vigorously fought his medical problems and, though with reduced breathing capacity, he completely recovered.

At a party in 1994 Dave met a woman named Jane. A good story would say that sparks immediately flew -- but, alas, not true. The couple did reinforce a friendship via Internet for a number of years. Over a period this friendship became closer until Dave proposed. The pair were married July 8, 2001 at their condo in Panorama City, California. Now they live in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For most of his life, Dave had two jobs at once. Some of those (in no special order) are: newspaper carrier, newspaper editor, drug store clerk, pitchman, salesman, Webmaster, parimutual operator, stable boy, bar manager and owner, and nude dancer.