Name:      Markus Illenseer
 e-Mail:    markus@tiger.teuto.de
 WWW:       http://www.teuto.de/~markus/
             or
            http://beaver.teuto.de/ 
 Address:   Rathenaustr. 75
            33102 Paderborn
            Germany

 Directory: Contrib/FindPearls
 Amiga:     see below



 Story:

 Since 1987 I am working, programming and gambling with the Amiga. At
 first it was an A2000 which I gradually extended and finally, when I
 came across its capabilities (some know that machine as the legendary
 'beaver') replaced with an A3000. This machine is known by the name of
 'tiger' and, as it seems, will be my last Amiga.

 The A3000 is equipped with quite usual hardware:  A3640/25, 16MB RAM,
 a  Picasso  II  graphic  board, an A2065 Ethernet board, A2060 Arcnet
 board.   Connected  to  it  are a 400MB Fujitsu, two 1 GB Conner, 2GB
 Quantum  Atlas,  8GB HP harddrive, a Plextor 4x speed CD-ROM and a HP
 DAT streamer.

 The phrase "usual" refers to Unix environments - regarding that area,
 you might even consider calling my machine "weakly equipped".

 I am working with NetBSD-Amiga since it started existing. That was back
 in March 1993 when Markus Wild for the first time managed to port
 NetBSD 0.9 to the Amiga (which was a real adventure by then). At
 that time I only had the A2000 and happened to be the only reference
 for NetBSD on an A2000 (until soon after that Hubert Feyrer joined us).

 As an achievement for NetBSD-Amiga I am responsible for successfully
 contacting people and doing a bit of coordination work here and there.
 For instance, I tried to avoid the chaos with the Cirrus Logic driver
 for NetBSD-Amiga by collecting and coordinating all patches and changes
 made to that driver. I didn't program very much.

 What the future is going to bring - I don't yet know. Right now there
 is no platform that really catches my eye. On the other hand used
 workstations have become quite cheap... also, the new PowerPCs sound
 quite interesting.

 Before the Amiga I already had an Altair (borrowed). At that time (1981)
 it was already out-dated, but it was my first computer. It was followed
 by a Laser 2000 from Sanyo (a computer compatible with nothing; I used
 it to learn Z80 assembler), after that a PET2000 (great machine at
 that time) and a C64.

 Most recently I obtained a FirePower PowerPC with a PPC604/100, 32MB
 RAM, 265K 2L cache, ethernet, onboard video. 

 This might sound like I am a veteran in computer means - but if you look
 at today's kids, they also start hacking at the age of 13 (although they
 have vastly faster machines now). Recently I received a fan letter. Its
 writer was a 78 years old pensioner with enormous computer knowledge
 which I really admire. He has by and by become a hidden idol for me.
 Why did he write me a letter? He said thanks for an article in an Amiga
 magazine in which I had explained NetBSD for the Amiga.

 In my spare time I do a lot of things - as long as I find the time for it.
 I am a passionate Softball player (Baseball for everyone), my position is
 pitcher or right wing. I also like juggling with balls - from 2 to 4 balls.
 For one year now I am trying to learning juggling with 5 balls which is
 pretty hard if you don't have the time to exercise it.
 Even more than that I like mountain-biking, bungee-jumping and climbing
 around in the french alps. This year I'm going to ascend my second 4000m
 mountain.

 My current profession is product manager internet.  I won't name my
 employer - that would be advertising.  I only state that my company
 is the fourth biggest computer manufacturer in europe, ahead of
 Apple.  As a second profession I am a freelance writer for some
 computer magazines and administer an internet POP.

 I hope you'll have a lot of fun with this CD, which once again I
 enjoyed putting together, even though I only worked on FindPearls
 this time.


My pictures:

 Juggling:



 Climbing: