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<H1 ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="maroon">John Karns</FONT></H1>
<STRONG>E-mail:</STRONG> <A HREF="mailto:jkarns@csd.net">jkarns@csd.net</A><BR>
<STRONG>Updated:</STRONG> 2001-09-26<BR>
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<P> John is a member of The Answer Gang.
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I first heard of Linux around 1994. Shortly thereafter I bought a copy
of Yggdrasil, which had kernel version 0.99 if I recall. One could either
install it to hard drive or run it directly from the CD.
<P> Until 1987, I worked as musician full- and part-time. My preferred
musical idiom is modern jazz - John Coltrane, Mile Davis, etc.
<P> Graduated 1983, Lawrence Institute of Technology (now Lawrence
Technological University), Southfield, Mich. B.S.E.E.
<P> First personal computers: Commodore 64 w/ TV as monitor, and Apple ][+.
<P> 1983 - 1985: field engineer with Wang Laboratories. Bought my first PC
from them, an 8086 (16 bit XT style), with 256k RAM, 10MB hdd, and
monochrome graphics in 1984.
<P> Worked in an electronics shop and freelanced as programmer approx 4 yrs.
Picked up some networking and RDBMS experience in an industrial IS dept.,
approx. 5 yrs; then more freelancing.
<P> Since early 1998 have been implementing LAN's (Linux-based, of course)
and setting up a distributed RDBMS for an educational institution in
Bogot&aacute; and other parts of Colombia, South America.
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