Before starting this consulting business in 1995 my career was based in electronics and computers. I began in 1975 installing car radio-telephones and repairing one-way voice pagers. After mastering the two-way radio business, I needed to move on to something more complex. In 1978 I switched from the radio electronics field to the computer electronics field. This is also when I began programming in CPM BASIC. By the early 1980's I had completed my engineering studies. Shortly after that, I was promoted to a Sr. Engineering position. Right about then is when I got my first IBM PC (one 360K floppy, no hard disk, cassette data storage). As part of my job (around 1985), I started working with UNIX based networks. By 1985 my PC had been through several upgrades. To make working in UNIX and DOS easy, I created (using the C language) all the DOS commands on the UNIX computer and all the UNIX commands on the DOS computer. In 1985 I was running about my sixth bulletin board system. This handled 16 on-line connections running at any of three speeds (300, 1200, and the ultra fast 2400bps modems). The setup was a 12MHz Intel 286 CPU with 2 high speed 40 Megabyte Hard Dish Drives running a UNIX like operating system with 16 Hayes 2400bps modems. The system ran all the typical BBS stuff like email. It also had interactive real-time gaming and real-time chat (like the Internet's ICQ or IRC). By 1989 I left the engineering field to work full time in the computer or information technology field. Just to make things official I got BSCS degree. <to be continued>