Lol yes.
Or back in the day when there were so few drive geometries you could select the drive type in the BIOS rather than having to select "#47-Custom", or whatever it is... -sc From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CompTIA certs 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/> ~
