I think I actually only 'lived' in OKC for a month or two one summer, my mother lived there for a number of years. I did my first stint at college at OU in Norman ... and came away five years later with nothing but a First Class FCC license that I got after dropping out and studying for it while doing janitor work for the University.
I moved to Denver and worked in two-way radio repair for a while and then went back to school part time to get a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science....that was in 83 and I've done computer work since then up until a couple of years ago.
I got involved with ebooks, before they were ebooks, with online text/ascii files etc, then CD-Roms and eventually the 'actual' ebooks we see today.
Sounds like we may have published technical articles in some of the same markets.
Enjoy!