I have recently retired from a 40 year career in computing, most of it in the management of large systems rather than programming. My most recent responsibility was as a contract project manager (£500 per day in 2001) for a global organisation that required its material specifications to be consistent across the world to take advantage of supplier globalisation or be dead. I joined the project after proof of concept and took it to a fully functioning secure system with suppliers entering their own sensitive price sensitive data. This was done in conjunction with global senior users to ensure the projects success at regional level. It was also adapted by me to collect evidence of contraband products and consequently had access to very sensitive investigations not normally allowed to contract staff. The project started in January 2001 and was implemented on time, to budget and user satisfaction During the period between Jan -April 2004.senior management I had June and July off and the same company invited me back on another project, I had a heart attack in 2004 and haven't worked since, so my skills are not current ( apart from kick-arse senior management, which I do when necessary and without authority to anybody who's in my way.

I first learned to code on a DEC PDP-8 in the mid '70's in Assembly language and have been fascinated with it ever since. Now I have the time, I'm looking at 8086 Assembly language with a view to introduce computing concepts such as 2's complement arithmetic, bit masking RAL, RAR etc. I can't program in 8086 assembly I'm just asking questions to enable me to move my project forward. I hope to include a simple language and database of the sort Dr Neil Pappalardo and Meditech had in MIIS ( I met Dr Pappalardo in London in 1978 when they were coding MAGIC).

.