You think you had it bad? In my day, computers were all analog and used gears. We called them "engines"
Charles Babbage. ________________________________ From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 3:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs You youngins don't know how good you had it. Try wiring breadboards to program the darned things. Then we had advances and got to flip switches on the front panel to program. Then we got Cassette decks, punched cards and all kinds of new technology. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 3:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Man I could tune me some startup files back in the day... Autoexec.bat Config.sys Win.ini System.ini I tell you what though... people who lived before device drivers were something the manufacturer supplied have NO IDEA the pain involved in sorting thru control-codes to get a printer to work with Autocad for DOS, or yet another modem initialization file for a terminal program... For all it's faults, windows ushered in the era of device abstraction and independence... -sc From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 2:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs +10! :-) Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA [email protected] <BLOCKED::mailto:%[email protected]> www.eaglemds.com <BLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/> ________________________________ From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Himem.sys! Loadhigh= -sc From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 2:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CompTIA certs Don't forget about getting things to run under 640 K, load in EMS, and load in XMS. Or am I forgetting my terminology. It has been 16 years since I've had to do anything with it...except for Master of Magic, that is. On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:27 PM, John Cook <[email protected]> wrote: Nothing like having to set jumpers for IRQs on a new card......good times...... From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 2:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Yep! And how to install EISA cards using bear skins and stone knives. From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Seriously?!? Wasn't like that when I took it either back in '99. Sheesh. Of course back then they also covered 8 bit vs 16 bit ISA, IRQ, and DMA... Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA [email protected] www.eaglemds.com ________________________________ From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs I just spoke with someone who recently got the A+. He was very disappointed in the test. It seems that it deals more now with IT professionalism than technical expertise. An example question he gave me was, " You are working in a company's Payroll department and notice some confidential papers on the desk. What do you do?" It wasn't like that when I took it. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 9:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs You've gotta start somewhere, though. I started with A+, Network+, and I-Net+ just to get some (relatively) easy letters after my name. That was a few years ago, and hopefully the A+ exam in particular has changed. I had been building and repairing computers for years when I took it, but still had to study a fair amount because I found that the exam wasn't quite aligned with the real world. Which I guess can be said of most exams. John From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs IMHO these are very baseline certs. With 15+ years, you should be looking at more advanced certification. Cheers Ken From: paul d [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 1 March 2010 10:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Thanks, guys. I do have 15+ years. Just looking into maybe getting a few. There's a "whiff" of outsourcing in the air. 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