My name: Dipl.-Ing. Thomas C. Mara
(Dipl.-Ing. is the abreviation for "Diplom-Ingenieur" - the University Degree of the Technical University Of Vienna for Informatics)
My profession: Computer Scientist (Software-Developer)
My interests:
computer, technics und sience, science fiction (Star Trek u.ä.), satellite-TV, music, etc.
My hobbies:
computer (software-development, hardware-home-mechanics), gardening, do-it-yourself, painting, fotography, video, etc.
My favorite music:
The Human League, Heaven17, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, etc.
My computer-languages:
C, C++, Assembler (9900, 8031, 8086, 68000), Smalltalk, Forth, Modula, Fortran, Basic, Cobol, etc.
My "natural" languages:
"Viennese", German, English, Latin
My computers:
archives: TI99/4A, Atari 800XL, Atari ST, PCs
in use: Pentium-PCs
My private computer-projects:
- Household-Database for Windows (bills, video-collection, etc.)
- Development-system for 9900-CPU (incl. simulator for EPAC95)
- Software for EPAC95 (BIOS, Command-Interpreter, FORTH-Version)
- Development-system for 8031-CPU (incl. simulator for my prototype)
- Control-computer-prototype on 8031-CPU-basis
- Add-On-Boards for 8031-computer-prototype (Centronix, LCD, Keyboard, Speech-Output, Temperature-Mesurement, Relais , etc.)
- Software for 8031-computer-prototype (BIOS, Command-Interpreter, Applications)
- FORTH-Version for 8031-Computer-Prototype
- Integrated Phonem-Assembler for SP0256-Speech-Chip for 8031-computer-prototype
- Prototype of EPROMMER on Centronix-Port
- Recordings-collection-data-base with dBase
- Source-Code-Analysing and complexity-calculation of C-Programs and dBase-Programs
- various utilities
- Building of projects for pirate-cards that are available on the Internet and mailboxes (Season, Pic-Card, 8031-Card, etc.)
- Building of hardware-projects of C't-magazine (IR, Teletext)
My business computer-projects:
- OSI-Transport-Layer-Simulation with Smalltalk (my thesis at university)
- Customer-Managment for Immunozytometry-Marketing with dBase
- X-Ray-Patients-Managment for a hospital-x-ray-department incl. statistics with dBase
- Communications between PC and Elektronic Scales with LonTalk-Network
- Communications between PC and Elektronic Scales with RS232
- Communications between PC and Reverse-Vending-Machines for bottles and crates
- Communications between PC and Industrial-Barcode-Printers
- Maintenance of the Software of Elektronic Scales