Remember when you had to know and set the number of heads and sectors and blocks on a drive?
Ever have to switch a drive to another machine (or have a CMOS failure on the current machine) that forced you to figure out what custom settings had been used by someone too lazy to look at the drive label for the recommended settings? I had a special tool that would read the drive and tell you what settings had been used. Can't recall the name, but it's on a few floppies I still have at home. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]>wrote: > 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/> ~
