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unixwzrd
This needs to be worked on, but when I get a chance.
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I am an independent systems consultant. Here's a <b>quite old</b> copy of
my <a href='http://www.discomsys.com/~mps/resume.html'>resume</a>
which needs updating, and <peeve>headhunters always seem never to actually
have *read* it and always want me to send them a copy in "Word
format" because they haven't figured out Word imports HTML </peeve>, if you're interested...
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My history of computing goes back to 1976 when I got my hands
on an IBM 1620 my high school had acquired. It had lots of
blinky lights, core plane memory, read punched cards, and had
data entry terminal. I still have the programming manual for
it.
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Almost at the same time I gained access to a Hewlett Packard
HP-2000 "Minicomputer". The machine was the size of a couple
or refrigerators and a room full of disk drives all looking like
washing machines. It used LSI ADM-3A dumb terminals and
DecWriter LA-36 printer terminals. I was hooked and spent
as many hours at the University as I could learning everything
I could.
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That was also back when the only personal computers were the
Altair 8080, and the Imsai 8080. Managed to get access to
another University machine a DEC-20.
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Culture shock: my first college class was FORTRAN (WATFIV, actually).
We were forced to use punch cards and would wait patiently for
our jobs to work their way up the IBM 370's job queue and then
wait for the operator to bring us our printouts.
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To be continued...
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<a href='http://www.discomsys.com/~mps/images/geekshot.jpg'>Here's a fairly recent photo</a>
notice Conway's book in front - one of my top 10.
<p>
I hope to take a brief vacation <a href='http://www.b737.com'>here</a>.
Ever want to take the controls of a Boeing 737?
<p>
<b>Shameless plug:</b> one of my clients sells travel insurance
on the web. If you need <a href='http://www.insuremytrip.com'>
travel insurance, give them a visit here</a>, it helps keep
gainfully employed ;-)
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<b>Music?</b> Check out <a href='http://www.3wk.com/'>3WK</a>
usually playing on my laptop when I'm not listening to one of
my CD's.
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If you want to drop me a line, you can at: mps@discomsys.com<br>
Note: no "mailto" tag, I don't like them personally... I use
<a href="http://www.mutt.org/">Mutt</a>
for my mua and <a href='http://www.vim.org/'>Vim</a> for
for my editor and like it that way.
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