Msg: 5440 *Conference*

09-25-94 17:49:28

From: RICHARD HANSON

To : KENNETH SMITH

Subj: REPLY TO MSG #5438 (HARDWARE INSTALLED)

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Kenneth: What can I say but thanks for the compliment.  We do our best to
serve.  In fact, you [the customer] are the reason we continue our work.  After
all, we are customers, too.  We do our best to treat others in the same way we
want to be treated.

As a budding, new comptuer science major, remember ... micros are only part of
the industry.  As a 12 year college/university information systems educational
contractor, I highly recommend the following...

 * Systems analysis and design - do some volunteer work on a systems project.

 * Systems security and maintenance - refer to the "base line" studies
available through the government printing office.

 * Take courses in business, marketing, distribution channels, management,
economics, business law, investments, and last but not least ... art.  Resist
at all cost become a total computer geek!

 * In your field, take courses in, machine language, C, fundamentals of
electricty and electronics, and all you can get in network design and
maintenance, and database design and management

 * Find the nearest chapter of DPMA (data processing managers association), and
the ASM (association of systems managers) and get on top of their issues.
There are publications in your universities library.

 * Read: "Information Payoff: The Transformation Of Work In The Electronic Age"
by Paul A. Strassmann, ISBN 0-02-931720-7.  And, while you're at it, build a
personal bibliography of all the best readings.

And never forget ... for all intense and purposes ... big business functions
and thinks in an IBM mainframe world.

Good luck, sir!  -Rick-