Pro 3K


About Pro 3K


About

 

Pro 3K is based in Nashville, Tennessee. We are located in Hermitage neighborhood. Until June 2015, Pro 3K was based in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.  From 2015 to 2023, we were located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We have  been faithfully serving our clients and the HP 3000 community since 1988.  Our clients are located near and far.  Here is a list of some of our client locations:

- Waseca, Minnesota,

- Minneapolis and St. Paul (Twin Cities), Minnesota, 

- Edina,

- North and South Dakota,

- Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa, Utah and Connecticut.

 

We look forward to serving new customers in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina and the surrounding areas.

 

Pro 3K's CEO and consultant is Mark Ranft.  Mr. Ranft has been working on MPE/iX and the HP 3000  since 1980.  His expansive knowledge covers everything from system administration, systems programming, application programming and computer operations. Interoperability,  system performance, capacity planning and training are some of his strengths.

 

Mark is also expert in many other technologies. He recently completed his Azure Cloud Certification. This includes everything from Apples to Windows, Ultra-4K HD Televisions and Dolby Atmos Surround sound systems. If we don't know how to solve your technical problem, we will soon.

 

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Our seahorse logo was
designed exclusively for
Pro 3K by Academy Award Nominee:

Joe Ranft, Pixar Animation Studios

 

 

 

 

Expertise and Qualifications


HP e3000 Internet Consultant Partner and
HP Computing Solution Provider Program (DSPP) Partner
Hewlett Packard Certification
Data Conversion / Migration
Hewlett Packard Training

Hewlett Packard Certification
Star Certification
HP Certified - MPE/IX Systems Administration
HP 3000 Series 900 Technical Professional Certification

 

Data Conversion / Migration


Pro 3K offers MPE-related data conversion and migration services


MPE STORE, Road Runner Orbit, BackPack and other backups can be read
and converted to various formats and written to your choice of media


Data extraction from/to databases


Pro 3K can read your 9-track 1/2 inch reel to reel tapes and format your ACSII or
EBCDIC data and write it to your choice of modern media (CD or DVD)

 

Hewlett Packard Training


MPE and MPE/IX System Performance Training
Designing and Optimizing Applications
Advanced Systems Management
TurboIMAGE Data Base Management System
VPLUS/3000
System Operator
QUIZ for Programmers

 

Language Experience

.Net

C#, C++, C
COBOL
Cognos' Powerhouse (Quiz, Quick and QTP)
Fortran
HTML
SPL
Pascal
Basic, TurboBASIC

Application Experience


Accounting (AP, AR, G:L)
Aerospace
Agriculture
Achitechure, Engineering and Construction
AMISYS
Automotive
Banking
Education
Electronics
Energy / Natural Resources / Mining / Oil and Gas
Finance / Insurance / Real Estate
Government
Healthcare
IBM WebSphere
Legal
Manufacturing (Discrete, Process, WIP, MRP)
Media / Entertainment / Arts / Recreation
Payroll
Point of Sale
Printing and Publishing
Professional Services
Reservation
Retail / Wholesale
Service Industries
Tax
Telecommunicaitons
Transportation and Shipping
Travel and Tourism
Utilities (Backup)
Warehouse Management
Wholesale Trade

 

Network Experience

Drupal
Word Press
Dreamweaver
Apache Web Server
IBM MQ Series
Samba/iX
TCP/IP
BOOTP
DNS
Sockets
Network Printing Services
OpenView Console, System Manager, DTC Manager
LAN / WAN / Routers / Bridges / Switches / Smart Hubs
10-base-T / 100-base-T / Gigabit Ethernet
Windows Networking

Hardware Experience
HP 3000 and peripherals
HP XP disk arrays (XP256, XP512 and XP128)
AS/400 iSeries
HP-UX
AMD and Intel-based PCs

Operating System Experience


MPE (Classic MPE/V, MPE/XL and MPE/IX)
Windows Server 2012, 2008, 2003 and 2000 and NT
Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP and older
Linux
HP-UX
DOS

 

Database and File System Experience

Microsoft SQL Server

TurboIMAGE (IMAGE, IMAGE/SQL)
KSAM
Message Files
Circular Files
RIO Files
User Volumes (Private Volumes or Volume Sets)
Hierarchical File System Files (HFS)
Oracle DBMS
COM/DCOM
ISAM

 

System Utilities Experience

Quest's Netbase, NBSpool and VistaPlus
Robelle Consulting's QEdit and SuprTool
Glance and Qlanceplus PAK and SCOPE (formerly OPT)
Lund's SOS and Performance Gallery Gold
VPLUS (a.k.a. View and DEL)
Rego's ADAGER
VESOFT'S MPEX, Security and VEAudit
COGNOS' PowerHouse
(including QUIZ, QUICK and QTP), (a.k.a. Quasar)
ROC's RoadRunner(Back Pack), SpoolMate and Formation
Bradmark's DBGeneral
Opin Systems REVEAL
Tidal's OCS EXPRESS, TAPE
RAC's ESPUL 
and many more

 

PC Experience


Microsoft Windows - All versions
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, etc.)
Powershell

Microsoft Networking / LAN Manager
QuickBooks Pro - Retail Management Software
DOS
WRQ Reflection Suite
ODBC
Cognos' PowerHouse PC, PowerPlay and Impromtu
Symantec's Norton Utilities, PC Anywhere and Win Fax

 

Other Experience / Abilities

President, Minnesota HP Regional Users Group
Training
Purchasing Assistance
(save big by having an unbiased expert help right-size your purchase)
Volume Management
Capacity Planning

Disaster Recovery
System Performance
Bottleneck Identification and Resolution
Response Time Monitoring
Operator-less Environments (Lights out computer room)
User Defined Commands (UDCs)
Command Files
BAT Files
JCL
Borne Shell


 

 

Call Pro 3K and Mark Ranft at (612) 804-2774


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