I still have my dad's old tube tester; he was great at fixing tv's. That was a fun tool. He was a HAM operator, too. In fact, I still have his testing kit which he used to test people's ability to read/'write' Morse code. Back then, to get a HAM license you had to have that skill.
Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:36:37 -0500 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] My Dad had a tube tester from his Dad (who had a radio then TV repair shop way back when), and used to fix TV’s for friends. Back when they were tubes and discrete components. Transistors, diodes, capacitors (of different flavors), resistors. Soldering irons. Transformers. Voltmeters. O-scopes. I’d sit on his workbench and watch. Then digital came along. TTL circuitry. 555 timer projects. Boolean logic. Flip-flops and oscillators. Now everything is on a chip, and disposable. Not to sound crotchety, because of course the density makes individual component troubleshooting near impossible, but it was a fun time to be able to read a schematic of a television, etc… and be able to determine what an individual component did. -sc From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 11:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs +1 To take it a step further…It seems that most people in this business these days don’t have a clue what a transistor or a P-N Junction is. My father played with some of the first transistors ever available to the public. Practically everything I know (or at least the technical foundation thereof), I learned from him. I learned how to count by counting electronic components for him…transistors, LEDs, ICs…and no, the cadmium, lead, nickel, etc that I handled as a young child didn’t affect me in the leas…le…leas…least. <insert vision of my head twitching as I type…> And of course, don’t forget about vacuum tubes… Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA [email protected] www.eaglemds.com From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 8:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs I know. It’s probably how the previous generation felt about punch cards and mag tape reels. -sc From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 7:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CompTIA certs We're all much better off for having had to learn that stuff back in the day. The younguns today are cheated by comparison, and don't even know it. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone From: "Steven M. Caesare" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:10:44 -0500To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]>Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Ahh yes… Helix. And the LIM* spec that allowed precious memory above the 1MB expanded memory area to be used. -sc *Lotus –Intel-Microsoft From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 5:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CompTIA certs Helix Netroom was my favorite! They had a nice high memory mouse driver. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone From: "Steven M. Caesare" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:55:20 -0500To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]>Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Snob… EMM386 and DoubleSpace not good enuff for you huh? Let me guess you ran QuarterDesk or GEM too? J -sc From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs I have to go tweak my QEMM settings again, and see if I can get DiskDoubler to squeeze a few more bytes of storage out of my ST-225 HD, which by the way, shakes the whole desk as the heads seek.After that, I have to work on getting Win 3.0 to work better in my DeskPro window. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Excuse me, I have to go install my math coprocessor. -sc From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Ok, I’m not very old (at least I don’t consider myself to be), but thanks for making me feel even older now! J And how about the nifty LED displays that showed at what speed the CPU was operating, along with the “Turbo” button? I can’t tell you how disappointed I was when I realized it was just a bunch of jumpers that I could program myself… 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 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. CheersKen 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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