Back In The Day

User wakes up Network support at home because he can't log in thru his VPN account to the office at 7 pm ...turns out his Internet connection is down...

So when said net admin walks by today, other tech in the aisle yells...
"Hey! Fix my TV!" ROFL

Back in the mid-90's I was the junior member of 3 department heads in a unit of engineering within a computer company. The other 2 heads were joined at the hip but both had terrible reputations within the company for being exceptionally negative. Both were viewed as useless. Ask them to do something and it was impossible or hugely expensive to do it.

Sometime early May 2000 my server response tanked and the AV log was growing fast. Response on the old server wasn't unusual, but a rapidly filling AV log was of concern. Tracking it down I find my manager's name on every log entry.

Back in the mid-1970s I was a high school student. Our school was was the first one in our area to offer courses in the new field of computer programming, so I signed up to take BASIC programming. We didn't have a computer in our high school, but connected to the mainframe at the local university via a then blazing fast Dataphon 300 baud modem (complete with phone cradle).

We had a few people that listened to the gloom and doom crowd and one of the things I was told by them was that Y2K would mess up the days of the week and days. Their computer would have the wrong date. I gently reminded them they had a wall calendar that was Y2K compliant and if they didn't trust their computer to look at the wall.

This is my maiden post. So please be gentle!

Long, long ago... about 1970, I was an Electrical Engineering student with the requirement to take a 1 credit hour Fortran programming course. How easy it is for a course like that to take way more than one hour!

Wow....what wonders our world of computers has shown us and allowed us to explore. I was going through my attic the other day and noticed something bleak, old, somewhat out of style....and that was my old Compaq. It ran Windows 98. Oh..my..god. I sat there and laughed...and laughed. This computer belonged to my grandfather but oh what stories it held.

My love for programming began in my second year at the university. We did a course on FORTRAN 77 (outdated I know, but what could I do?). It fascinated me so much.

There is this friend of mine who was trying to develop an email application for a mobile company. He was hoping that if all was well, he would just tell them he had something they might need and all the blah blah blah of marketing (or whatever it is).