The president of Adaptive Enterprises (Dr. Weldon Vlasak) has been a consulting engineer since 1972. This firm has been involved in numerous endeavors over a wide variety of disciplines, but hismain expertise lies in the design electronic systems. He formed his first company, Adaptive Systems, Inc.., in order to supply fiberoptics components for the communication industry. Unfortunately, the market for fiberoptics did not develop until ten years later. The computer project shown above led him to believe that there would be a market for home computers, but investors did not have faith that home buyers would be able to utilize computers. We now know the impact that they have made.

He has more recently been involved in the private study of electrromagnetic propagation, and he has formulated a theory that gravity is an electromagnetic phenomenon. Due to the unique nature of his theory, and the fact that there is some conflict with the methods of Quantum Mechanics, physicists have been slow in accepting its validity. He has published four books on the subject and written numerous papers. His claims, that electromagnetic field waves can move much faster than Einstein's speed of light limit and that information is transmitted directly between matter (atoms), were not accepted even though these claims were substantjated by measurements made years ago and confirmed many times over.

It is only very recently that similar claims regarding matter and high electromagnetic field wave velocities have been verified by other measurements. Several years ago he suggested that the ether of the universe may be the dark matter that phytsicists believe exist within galaxies. An astrophysicist just recently published an scientific paper making a similar claim. He visualizes his next project as proving the true dynamic character of thermal noise, as defined in his fourth book, which awaits funding for the resources to conduct the experiment. To learn more about his studies and his books, check out his science site, and also learn about his favorite sport.

 

The lady on the right is operating the first commercially available true portable computer (not a calculator). It was designed and built by Adaptive Systems, Inc. (our earlier founding company in the mid-1970's), and was based on the PDP-8 minicomputer. It utilized a 12-bit CMOS microprocessor, and was powered by a sealed lead-acid battery from which it could operate continuosly over a period of eight hours.

The first model was briefcase size and was sold to a professional gambler to calculate betting odds at horse races!

Check out our other Past Projects for info on various other past design projects of Dr. Vlasak.