I began writing at 14 after I found a Smith Corona typewriter on our dining room table. I typed by hunting and pecking. I became a stenographer for a muse. Where else could that word stream originate?
Most of my publications will never surface on the Internet since I began publishing in the early 1980’s. Before the Internet, we maintained libraries. We don’t do that now. Also, if you thought you could retrieve your two-decade old material, think again. It may exist in the Way Back Machine also known as the Internet Archives but I doubt it.
Many significant events have helped define my career but I consider two paramount. The first occurred when Longman published my first hardback. The second occurred when I stopped composing in passive voice.
I have had four career phases. Early on, I wrote screenplays, novels and music. Yeah. Music. One of my albums still exists on CD and in cyber-space. I have most of that material below.
I left music and went into finance and technology. I wrote for market position. You’ll see works associated with my life as a CPA and later as an Investment Banker, for example. People would say, “Oh, he’s the guy that wrote the book on that.”
One of my earliest achievements (after passing the CPA exam) came with the development of an accounting package called CAS for Client Accounting System. We ran it initially on a Wang VP micro computer and then ported it to a Texas Instruments model 770. When TI told us they had abandoned the 770, we purchased a 990 Model 1. It came with Microsoft BASIC on a chip.
Using the architecture associated with the minimal memory and large floppy disks of that time, we employed file pointers to eliminate sorting. The system proved economical and allowed accountants to reduce the average time to process a client’s books from three days to four hours.
After selling several of the systems to other accounting firms, TI came to us with an offer for $500,000 for the software from one of its large customers and I accepted. This occurred in 1979 before the release of the IBM PC.
Shortly after the sale, I left my CPA firm and joined an equity management company. The owners asked me to form a NASD broker-dealer and package several properties as security offerings. I knew enough about limited partnerships and Schedule D exclusions to accomplish their goals and worked for the company for two years. In 1983, I left and formed my own broker-dealer which meant with substantial success.
I consider the publication of my book, “How to Read, Analyze and Select Private Real Estate Offerings” as one key to my the success of my new business. Prospective clients got advanced copies of the book and found the information useful. The publication also generated interviews and brought about a lot of publicity.
Another key to the firm’s success involved offering financial planning services to CPAs. Using my knowledge of personal computers, I acquired a software product that generated comprehensive financial plans. A CPA filled-in a questionnaire and sent it to us by mail. We would then use the software to generate a plan, output it on book quality paper, bind it and use the CPA firm’s letterhead as the front page. The client never knew we wrote the plan.
Though we never asked, CPAs would often refer their clients to us to implement the financial plans. This opened-up opportunities for portfolio management. That opened up other opportunities.
I sold my firm, retired at 39 and re-entered the corporate world at the very beginning of the Internet era. I also write about watches and the watch industry. (You can see how my writing might confuse search engines.)
When people do Internet searches on my name, they get varying results. Those results depend on one’s search engine profile. Some people get three results and some get 80,000. Google and Microsoft have us so narrowed down, they filter what we see. Odd, I helped those people develop their technology.
I put this site together in an effort to consolidate and put my work in one place. This will take awhile, so drop by every now and see my progress.
Current Websites:
| Vintages Hamilton Wristwatches Largest Hamilton Watch Collection on the Internet |
| Asian Watches Articles about popular Asia Watches |
| Historical Catholic Online Faith Based |
| Adult Faith Formation Online – Old Rite Catechism |
Features of 189:
Following Bill Gates Linux Attack Money
Understanding and Replacing Microsoft Exchange Linux
Bynari Find the Missing Link
Linux Lost a Good Friend
REFERENCE LINKS:
ClearVoice Portfolio:
https://clearvoice.com/cv/TomAdelstein
| Tom Adelstein – Author’s Pages Lots of Books, Letters, Awards, etc. |
| Amazon Author Page |
| Articles about 200 Links to Magazine Articles I Wrote |
| O’Reilly Media |
If you have the book, Linux System Administration, and need the bash-scripts mentioned in the appendix, you can get them here.
If you have an Android phone, my work made that possible. We used to call it an embedded Linux device. The word, Linux, has its origins in the name Linus. If you know your history, Linus succeeded Simon Peter as the second bishop of Rome.
If you have an Apple device, the system around the Linux kernel came from the same sources used to create the Android. In our website logs, visits from Android devices show up as Linux. I find that ironic.
When I worked as a musician, producer, songwriter :
“No Easy Answers” CD Released by Morrhythm Records in 1992
You Can Listen to and/or Download Songs
Click on Album Page
Dance with a Stranger: on Chordify
The Dallas Songwriters Association noted work I did for Alexis Tapp.