User:Scott1329m

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scott1329m is the online handle used by Scott McMahan, beginning around 1998.

Contents 1 Background 2 Areas of Interest 3 What 1329 Means 4 Online Information

[edit] Background

Scott McMahan is a software developer. The majority of his career has been working with UNIX (HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, etc) and Linux software and platforms. Currently, Scott is concentrating on mainframe software development.

His eclectic interests include the band Genesis (for which he edited a Discography). Scott was once a writer of fiction, poetry, etc but has stopped doing this.

The demands on his professional career have prohibited Scott from doing much with respect to hobbies or activities, but his interest lies chiefly in historical computing, especially from the year 1987 (which has personal significance for Scott). He has built a hard-disk image of MS-DOS software from that year, including such rare programs as WordPerfect 4.1, Turbo Pascal 4.0, and Turbo C 1.5. Some information about this is at the DOS 1987 project, including some interesting hacker-related documents. He has attempted to IPL an instance of ITS in an emulator, but was stopped by the lack of documentation.

Scott graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville UNCA in 1994 with a BS degree in computer science. His resume is online.

Scott is a fan of the UNC Tar Heel college basketball team.

[edit] Areas of Interest

• Software from the 1986-1987 period, especially for MS-DOS.
• Retrocomputing and early hacking on LISP and other early languages.
• People outside of normal society like G.G. Allin, the King James Only movement, Fred Phelps, etc.
• The Scottish Reformation, King James Bible, and Calvinism.
• World War I and Birkenau, senseless death
• Capuchin Crypt (Rome)
• J.R.R. Tolkien studies.
• etc.

[edit] What 1329 Means

The numbers were made up off the top of his head when Scott was forced to come up with an AOL Instant Messenger handle. Both are uniform numbers. #13 refers to UNC Tar Heel women's basketball player Maggie Goloboy. #29 is the uniform number of Scott's favorite baseball player, John Smoltz.

[edit] Online Information

Scott's web site is The Cyber Reviews, although this is no longer maintained. Scott was a book reviewer in the mid-1990s (hence the name), and used the site as a vehicle for his own writing. Mirror.

Scott writes an irregular, occasional blog at SermonAudio.com.