DECUS Digital Equipment Corp. User Society Member of the former DECUS (Switzerland) (that is why I have a strange e-mail address...) since 11-APR-1989 (later it was HP-Interex).

Thomas Ernst Schmid My personal homepage. No, I do not update it often – no blogging here.

I was born in Zürich, a long time ago. I am still enjoying life in this town

How to find me physically:
my address in VCard Format Yes I moved - since Monday, 2007-02-26, thus for the last 6 years 4 months, my address is again:   Streulistrasse 85         City Map/Stadtkarte CH-8032 Zürich 7 ('Parish'/Stadtteil: Hirslanden) Telephone 044 321 35 27 (same as before) teeschmid Here I live with my good friend Marianne Paassilta. Do not be afraid if she answers our phone, you dialled the right number. My mother's phone in the same house: (if you are really desperate in getting hold of me...) E. Schmid's phone: 044 381 61 34	My address as displayed by http://www.map.search.ch. (Public transport timetable will pop up when moving the mouse over a tram or bus stop signature):
How to find me on the net: You found my webpage, do you intend to send me a nice mail?
My mail address here - my offical private mail address - is behind the following link: I have an address at IEEE (the Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers) as well , this mail goes to the same server (at decus.ch). Your e-mail to my above addresses is bouncing? Our mail server refuses e-mails with subject headings associated with spammers, such as "Hello" or "Hi" or "From Anna". ⇒ Please try something relating to the content of your message! (No spam mails to any of the addresses given on my pages - I am fed up with Mr. Martin Fürst, blacksocks at Wilen and their like - I do not think these people have friends).

Information about my career

I am an electrical engineer, graduated from ETH in Zürich in 1978.

The first five years after graduation I worked at the then BBC, Brown Boveri & Cie, on superconducting wires and cables and on magnets (consisting of tonnes of copper and good insulation – or of hundreds of kilogramms of superconducting cables and a good electrical insulation to endure high forces and temperature cylces plus a insulation to keep the coils close to absolute zero temperature. ).

Since 1984 I work on computers, programming, system management, integration, testing - you name it, I did it.

In 2006 I started working as a field service engineer for Fonar Corp. of Melville, N.Y., U.S.A., Producer of the UPRIGHT™ MRI machine.
I maintained MRI ⁽¹⁾scanners, i.e. I did any jobs from checking the water in the chiller to updating SW on the computer for customers in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and Spain.

• my c.v. my curriculum vitea
• an EDP profile - what computer HW and SW I have worked on and remembered to include on the list.

Yes, I use
a Mac G4
to write
these pages

I ran web pages for some of my societies on the Alpha server elias.decus.ch, most with hand written PHP-Pages. Until, on 25-FEB-2012, the computer had suddenly vanished from the net.

My Finnish folkdance society Wenlat [in German language]. I rebuilt the old web site on the Linux server here, pending miracles.

There is a society for my mother tongue (my Swiss German dialect Züritüütsch): Swiss German, Schweizerdeutsch [in German language].

My (Swiss) mountaineering society Alpine Uster had a web page run by me from end 1998 until mid 2006 [in German language]. The historic part of these pages is still on this server (subdir Alpine).

The (small) Switzerland chapter of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology is not very active at present.

This webpage comes from one of those reliable Digital Alphas, running OpenVMS.
Our DECUS System Manager did provided us members with the means to set up these pages, thank you very much, Kurt Schumacher!