Indeed.
And the addressing issues that came with the larger drives... often requiring you to run a translation shim (On-Track anyone?) asn LBA wasn't around yet. Good times. -sc From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CompTIA certs I remember partitioning a 120 MB drive (that I had purchased for $500.00) in order to have separate storage space for applications, games, and space for my brother and myself on a 386SX-40 with 1MB of RAM. Now, I can buy multi-TB drives for less than half of that. Despite the irrationality of the sentiment (after all, I did get tremendous ROI from that drive), it all just makes me weep on occasion. :) The first GB drives I touched were at a financial firm -- 1GB Micropolis drives. Next were 4GB Seagate SCSI drives. (Remember when SCSI drives were larger than IDE/ATA drives?) -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Maglinger, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: The 1st 1GB drive I installed was for a stock broker client. It had 20-something partitions. I remember saying at the time, "You'll never use all that space." Yeah, right... From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 6:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Yup. I remember installing a SCSI card (full length slot monster) so an engineer could use a mammoth 1_GB! Hard drive in it for some magnetic modeling he was doing. Amazing in a 486/33. -sc From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 5:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CompTIA certs VL-Bus -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone ________________________________ From: "Steven M. Caesare" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:37:04 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Subject: RE: CompTIA certs 8-bit vs. 16-bit ISA NuBus (yes, we had to deal with Mac's back then too!) TSR's Config.sys Good times... -sc From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 2:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Microchannel... From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 1:17 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. 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. And, at my age, getting another IT job won't be easy. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:50:16 -0500 > Subject: RE: CompTIA certs > > +1 They are (and should be) easy compared to a Cisco or M$ cert; as Erik stated, they are good for a baseline. Also, keep in mind that since CompTIA is vendor-neutral, they can't go to the granularity that a vendor specific exam tends to cover. > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
