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range From pharmaceutical market research firm’s to fruit brokers to international banks. “What I like most about my job is diversity, after all, my function is to identify problems, implement solutions, and go away.” he said.
Mr. Day has been involved with computers since 1969 when computers were in their infantile stages - expensive and massive systems.
Instead of the micro-computers of today - compact and desk top size - the older computers often filled a large room with their bulk. They costed millions to purchase, operate and maintain. Companies, both large and small, would pay per second to use the one companies’ computer’s data banks. This method was called timesharing and though still practiced today, the business is declining.
“They cost millions and many companies didn’t - and don’t - have that to invest in a computer,” Mr. Day explained, adding that the over-sized brief-case box under his desk - his computer’s brain - had more power than the large roomsized computers of the past and are a fraction of the cost.
Leaving the computers of the past behind, in the 1970’s Mr. Day joined a colleague in a business which converted programs to run on
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