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About MRE Software: About the company: MRE Software was established in 1982 to market and sell software created for the IBM Personal Computer. In the early days of personal computers, before the Internet, there wasn't much software available at affordable prices for small business and individual use. We developed and sold two main products, a text editor and a file manager program along with a group of small utilities. We also established a "bulletin board" system to allow users from around the world to dial-in and download the products and obtain technical support. In a sense, we were pioneers in both small computer system programming and the telecommunications network that eventually became the Internet. The company name, MRE, is an acronym for Microsystems Research and Engineering. It is also no accident that when spoken it sounds like my first name, Emery. This fact was first noticed by my friend Michael Ray Edwards who noted that his initials were my name... When I started publishing software under the name MRE Software, he threatened (jokingly) to sue me for not acknowledging his "copyright". About the author:
In April of 2000 I sold my machine shop, found myself semi-retired at 43, and started looking more seriously at computer programming again. Without regard to the recent stock prices of some of the Internet pioneering companies, the Internet is here to stay and businesses must have a web presence. It seemed clear to me that there was a demand for Internet websites. Since one of the things I really loved about programming was the screen and user interface designs, I decided that I would add web publishing to my programming skills. In a sense it is similar to the machine shop, there is a demand for a service I like to provide. In a sense it is better than the machine shop in that I don't get many calls at 3:00 AM because MY PLANT IS DOWN!!! I can do this from my home and not be tied to the 8-5 daily, 24/7/365 on-call demands of the shop I worked at for 37 years. That not to say I neglect any customer, I am available virtually all the time but the emergencies I handle are just not as critical now. So that's the story. I am an engineer, small business owner, have a lot of programming experience, have worked all my life, and am not ready to sit on the porch in a rocker at age 47. I am working from my home and can be reached most anytime of the day or night. I have a nice digital camera to produce web-ready photos of your business and can prepare a site for you from the ground up. I know a little about business and think it helps me present businesses on the web in a manner that is clean, concise, and relevant. - Emery Wooten - |
I am 47 years old, born and raised in West Point, Mississippi and spent most of my life working in my family's machine shop. I attended West Point High School and graduated from Mississippi State University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1980. I have always had an interest in electronics and bought an IBM personal computer in 1981. Fresh out of college with some basic programming skills, I started writing software for the computer and I continued to work in the machine shop and handled the software business as a sideline. In the mid to late 80s my father's health began to fail and I found myself extremely busy running the machine shop while at the same time the MS-DOS operating system was being replaced by Windows. I found it impossible to run both businesses effectively so I allowed the software business to fade away with MS-DOS. I watched the dawn of the public Internet in the early 1990's and have been a dedicated "web surfer" ever since.