Hi Evan et al,

I may be unique in this field. I went back to finish my college after about 10 years in the computer (mainframe) field and 6 years in the US Army Signal Corps.

My introduction to pc's was the 802H Televideo. 64k of ram, 10 meg hard drive,
dBaseII, WordStar and MS MultiPlan. That's right 64K! Which was pretty good considering the 1401 mainframe I had written autocoder for had 8K. Yes K and no hard drive - cards and tape.

I started on a degree in accounting, switched to Computer Science and back to accounting/business/law.

I got frustrated sitting in back of the room shaking my head to let the instructor know wether he/she was right or wrong. I'd been in the business longer than he/she could spell it. Also every application I had work on at the time was automating some accounting function - AR/AP/Inv/Pay/etc.
I figured that it was to my and my clients benefit if I understood what is was that I was trying to automate. So I have a AS in Accounting and a BS in Business Mgt/Finance. It has served me very well. My occupation is to develope custom software to automate a particular function, usually accounting related. My main tool is VFP. But I should be able to use what ever tool is appropriate to do the job - and the job is developing/automating accounting/tracking systems.

I have run many training courses for several companies - including IBM. Not one of my students ever had a degree in CS or even computer courses. Of course that was a long time ago before C/S and Information Systems were offered by must colleges/universities.

Regards

Paige

Mr. Paige L. Chandler
P. Chandler Enterprises