It became Hi-P International, a contract electronics manufacturer with 25 plants as far-flung as China and Mexico and more than 15,000 employees.
When the digital recorder was invented, I started carrying it and recording sound, because I'm a musician and I do audio recordings and music, and when video cameras became hi-definition and small, I started shooting video while i was recording sound.
Sheds, for instance, have become hi-tech home cinemas or multi-MacBook desktop creativity centres, rather than ramshackle hideaway garden retreats for ageing hobbyists.
Sumi Das looks at how even the lighting in the bay area has become hi-tech with a shining example of Bay Bridge.
When somebody becomes HI at a later age and has been able to develop normal literacy skills, it can be useful to ask a speech-to-text interpreter to assist the consultation.
The country, with its low corporate tax rate, became the hi-tech gateway into Europe for companies like Google, Paypal and Facebook.
The Butlins brand, sent up affectionately in a television comedy, "Hi-de-Hi!", became a bit of a joke.No longer.
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, 16-year-old Kye Sun Hi became the first North Korean woman to win a gold medal by taking the extralightweight judo competition.
As cars become more hi-tech they become more vulnerable to hacking.
Warfare has become asymmetric; hi-tech states fight not each other, but shadowy insurgents, terrorists and freedom fighters.
Unemployed at first, then eventually answering an ad in the Guardian to become a hi-fi journalist.
