Warpstock 2010 Presenters

John Edwards

John is a retired educator who has been involved with personal computers since 1980. He has used OS/2 since version 2 and has been an OS/2 advocate ever since. He has been actively involved with the Kitchener-Waterloo OS/2 Users Group for a number of years and is the current President of Warpstock Corporation.

Lewis Rosenthal

Lewis has been active professionally in the IT field since 1987. His experience with OS/2 dates back to version 2.0, which became the first OS/2 workstation OS rolled out in his accounting & systems integration firm of Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC.

One of Rosenthal & Rosenthal's subsidiary companies, Hautspot, LLC, designs, deploys, and manages wireless hotspots and hotzones. Hautspot has been active in the managed Wi-Fi arena since 2004. Rosenthal & Rosenthal also hosts the OS/2 Wireless Users mailing list.

Edgar Scrutton

(BA York'66) (MA Windsor 78) has retired from 32 years of teaching Guidance, Special Ed, Reading, Math, Computers, and Family Studies at General Amherst High School. He now 'works for his wife' as IT expert and bookkeeper- accountant at Allison's Travel Agency in Windsor, Ontario. He has used OS/2 since 2.0 and programs in Basic, Turing, C++ and Rexx. OS/2 is the server of choice at Allison's.

Andy Willis

Andy, influenced by his dad, started with PCs and the TRS-80 at age 10. He has been using OS/2 since the early 90's and currently works for IBM in software support. He is a contributor to VOICE tips, ODIN, Mozilla, and Uniaud, and serves as Vice President on the Board of Warpstock Corporation.

Gregg Young

Gregg is currently the chief of podiatry at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also just happens to have been an OS/2 user since 2.1. He has recently learned C and now assists with the development of FM/2.

Bjoern Hennig

Bjoern Hennig started with OS/2 2.11 in the early 90s. In his job he is concentrated on Assembly Language, C/C++, Java and Python on a number of hardware platforms, PowerPC included. At the moment Linux and Microcontollers are his main occupation.

He is a member of the 'OS/2 User Group Dresden' and in 2005 he was one of the organizers of 'Warpstock Europe 2005'.

Uwe Hinz

Uwe Hinz has been a member of the OS/2 User Group Dresden since 2004. He is employed at the 'Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden' (IFW).

Starting with Z80-Computers in 1985 for controlling experiments in materials science, he made first steps in CP/M and DOS, programming with Assembly Language, Pascal and QuickBasic some years later.

From 1993 to 2000, he coded for a number of physical and chemical experiments, using Delphi and LabView for Add-On cards.

In 1997 a friend gave him an OS/2 Warp 3 packet and since then he has worked with it for fun, not for the job.

Uwe helped to host the Warpstock Europe 2005 event at the IFW, together with Robert Henschel and the 'OS/2 User Group Dresden'.

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