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Wayne's Background
My first introduction to computers was in 1977 when the US Army selected me to participate in an evaluation of a new Radio Direction Finding system.   I purchased my first computer, a Commodore 64, four years later. This computer was replaced by a Commodore 128 two years later.   In two years time I had all of the extra components of Commodore 128
After retiring from the US Army, I studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio.   My studies concentrated on Microcomputer Design and Logic Systems Design.   I purchased a 286 computer so I would not have to spend hours waiting for a free computer in the computer lab.   I purchased a 486 computer, when I had finished my pre-engineering requirements and needed more power so I could remotely connect to the University's computers.  

My old 486 computer retired a few years ago being replaced replaced by a Pentium II 266 computer which I built.   My living room now has been taken over by my network which includes the Pentium II 266, a Pentium II 350, and a Pentium 233. These computer have been replaced by my AMD Athlon 600Mhz, my Wife's Pentium III 500 MHz, and my Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 GHz computers.   I built a couple of AMD K6II 500 MHz computers.   One is still in service now running Windows.NET Server Release Candidate 1 and may soon be running RedHat Linux 8.0 if I can ever get the downloads. I have been using the K6II500 as my test computer and it has run WIndows 2000; Windows 2000 SBM Sever; Windows NT 4.0 Backoffice Server; Free BSD; RedHat Linux versions 4,5,6,7,7.3; SUSE Linux, and other Linux packages.   The other K6II is being used by one of my friends.   I enjoy building and upgrading computers and all of my computers serve as my computer laboratory. I experiment with Operating Systems and hardware.   I took an old Gateway P150 in trade for the K6II500.   You could say I was nuts, but I wanted to see how fast I could get this computer going.   I added the cache memory which was missing, installed the maximum amount of memory, changed the processor to a Pentium 233 MMX, and added a Promise RT 100 IDE Card and 7200 RPM UDMA 100 hard drive.   I was really surprised at the speed of the updated Gateway and amazed that I was able to install the WIndows XP per-release candidate on the computer when it did not meet the minimum requirements.   I have upgraded and built many computers for my friends.   These computers include dual Pentium III 1.2 Ghz Toulatin Processor Servers with RAID 0,1; Pentium I, II, III, and IV; AMDs including the K6II, K6III, Athlon, and Athlon TB, and a number of IBM Netfinity 5 Servers.

I have been actively using the Internet for over 14 years and have been working in the field of computer technical support for over ten years. My experience includes hardware and software support, Novell 3.11 Network Administrator, Help Desk telephone support, Desktop Computer Support and Internet Service Provider Systems Administrator (Unix and Apple Network), Team Leader for the State of Connecticut Y2K Project, Windows NT Domain Security Administrator for a large insurance company in New York City, Deployment Manager for two large Compaq Windows 2000 Rollouts.   I have been actively using the Internet for over 14 years.

I am currently between jobs and looking for the next one.   If you know of anyone looking for a hard working dedicated technical support or systems administrator have them contact me.

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