Welcome To Mark Salyzyn's Biography

Culturally a Canuck, Born on US soil and expatriate of both as a result. Privately a young at heart old fart.

A Professional Engineer. Listed in Marquis.

Mark Salyzyn was an email pioneer at machine #13 may it RIP and now works at DPT/Adaptec in Florida originally writing UNIX, NetWare, OS/2 and BIOS drivers for their SCSI RAID controller cards but managed to build project tendrils throughout the company. Click here for my Resume

Married Lesley Jackson, terminated by a difference of opinion on the question of marital fidelity, I have a preference for only one. Remarried to Lyna Gagnon, they moved in 1995 to the heart of Florida, in a suburb or Orlando. Mark and Lyna have six kids and one grandchild amoungst them, but non biologically between them. Lyna passed away in 2006. Remarried to Leigh Greer in 2007, I fear we may take over the world! Added her child to my loved set. I am 'pinky' to her 'brain'! Today I wonder why all my wive's names begin with the letter 'L' ...

An avid Pink Floyd fan, but passions are varied. He sports a Tatoo of the Berkeley Daemon. '83 Yamaha Virago, '90 GoldWing and now a '04 GoldWing carries a custom plate that exclaims ENODEV (The return from an open call when a device driver is not present, a value of 0x13). Geek is a compliment. NeXTSTEP rules the intelligent world, continue this passion for MAC OS/X.

Doug Anderson once wrote: `Mark Salyzyn is like a wild animal in a controlled frenzy'. This is both a compliment and a sad commentary. My Cat Herder often demands that I 'Wait for it', John Valby even exclaimed such for my on-stage performance.