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Post by somany on Apr 24, 2019 3:48:56 GMT
I was proficient/excelled in a lot of applications but I just never gained an understanding of the computers themselves. No interest or need, I guess, as we had IT departments to take care of it at work, and I was late, relatively speaking, getting a computer at home. I have forgotten most of what I knew as it’s been so long since I worked in the corporate world. Plus things have changed a lot, I’m sure. Excel is all I use these days, and that’s only very limited use compared to what I used to use it for. My sister helps me navigate the computer itself when I need to do something to it. If she weren’t knowledgeable, I’d probably get Geek Squad or something on retainer haha
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Post by chapeaunoir on Apr 24, 2019 4:05:27 GMT
For a while I was the "IT Department" for our office, which was funny because in reality I was actually just the senior editor who for some reason figured some stuff out somehow and took some classes. Talk about a 'slender reed', though.
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Post by zoesam on Apr 25, 2019 1:18:44 GMT
 They're just so wild - I've only seen one from afar. The one my ex- worked one was big enough to have a seat inside it? That boggled my mind. He said he used another mainframe with it, then they got this Mac in their office and it boggled everyone. It was the Tiny Mac era and somehow they got stuck on it - I was doing Mac support, as it so happened, for my job, and was setting one up for a work mate. I get this phone call - it's my ex-, one of Boeing's pet geniuses, with his colleague who was one of the Fellows for the company, they have various doctorals and a bunch of engineering experience, and I hear "The disc is stuck in the machine...what do we do?" ROFL - they'd gotten the floppy stuck and were flummoxed. I said "do you see that little hole next to the entry port" (muttering, then affirmative muttering) "Yes." "OK, unwind a paperclip and stick the end in that little hole" (muttering then AHHHHHHHHHHH! You're a genius!) I miss 80s and 90s computerland. Cool pic of the olden days! Thanks for posting. I love the paperclip method. I have a 6CD changer in my truck & it's old, so they get stuck sometimes & that's what I do to get them out LOL. Meanwhile, DH is travelling this week & was on the phone with me from his hotel room & suddenly says "there's water coming out of the wall". Arrgghhh, it was a LOT of water & there were 2 computers sitting on the desk, a personal one & a work one. The water got into the work one & completely fried it. It won't even turn on. Now he's having to spend the rest of the week with IT, trying to get everything he needs on the new PC to work correctly, before he brings it home & uses it to logon. NOT an easy task. Oh & they don't have typical hard drives, they are super custom b/c of the sensitive nature of the applications he works on, so they have to start completely from scratch. Yay. |
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Post by chapeaunoir on Apr 25, 2019 4:54:18 GMT
Ugh - one thing that hasn't flooded in our house!
I'm looking at all the shirt sleeves in that photo. I remember having to work in a parka and hood in our server room when I helped manage a little, funky server farm in the early oughts. The outer office wasn't much better because we had all of the PCs running like crazy in there. It was very Rube Goldberg and something was always breaking. THAT, I don't miss.
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