[COLUG] a/s/l -- no, really.

[Mark L. Wise]

Warner,

I have a BA in Computer Science in Systems Programming.

My college days were spent learning Digital Equipment Corporation 
computers.  PDP-8/e's and PDP-11 series.  I used to be quite good at 
Macro-11 Assembler, the RT-11 operating system and a little known 
extension to RT-11 called TSX-Plus.  (Allowed for multiple users of RT-11).

I started my business a few months after graduation and my first product 
was a Power Demand Control System based on an Altair 8800 
microcomputer.  I programmed it in assembler.  It had all of 16K of ram!

Anyway, somehow I got involved in business computing after that and 
became an OEM for DEC computers and began to sell/support accounting 
applications (long story here....).  From that I moved into the 
manufacturing vertical market and for years sold DEC PDP-11 systems to 
small-medium sized manufacturing firms.

After a failed  attempt to move on to DEC's VAX product line, I found 
SCO Xenix and moved most of my clients onto that platform.  Later, I 
upgraded them to SCO Unix.

It was then that I started getting involved with networking, e-mail, web 
servers and firewalls.

When Linux was first released I watched it grow until Red Hat Version 
6.  Then I began setting up all of my clients with firewalls, sendmail, 
and apache web servers.  I now use Fedora Core for my firewalls.  I have 
recently began using FC4 as my application servers as well, replacing 
SCO Unix.

I now support several sites with blends of SCO Unix, Redhat Linux, 
Fedora Core Linux.  I maintain T1's, DSL, ISDN Internet connections to 
firewall machines.  Most machines have Apache Web Servers, MAMBO CMS, 
sendmail, clam-AV, mailchecker, spamassassin, firestarter (firewall) 
software that I maintain.  The application servers run a manufacturing 
package called Prologic MESA that is written in SynergyDE (a DIBOL 
derivative).  I provide custom programming, consultation and support for 
this package.

In my "spare" time I support most all flavors of PC's that are connected 
to my client's internal networks.

I also support wireless networks when necessary.  Some of my clients 
also have me doing Credit Card authorization programming, WEB site 
design and programming.

Whew!  After listing all of this, it is no wonder why I am tired all of 
the time ;-)

I hope this helps!

Mark

-- 
Mark L. Wise

Alpha II Service, Inc.
1312 Epworth Ave
Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068-2116
USA

Office: (614) 868-5033
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Email: mark at alpha2.com
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