7 Feb
2002
7 Feb
'02
12:57 a.m.
Rumor has it that R. D. Davis may have mentioned these words:
Those were the days... now, fewer and fewer companies
are hiring
people to work with useful computers that are fun to play with. Out
of curiosity, how many others here absolutely refuse to work for an
employer requiring one to work with those confounded annoyances called
Micro$oft products?
To get this message back on topic: How many here still
work, for an
income, with the types of vintage systems they collect?
Well, my ISP needs to support FrontSpooge and other things M$, but I
primarily work with the Linux boxen for the Internet, and I try to avoid
anything winders as much as possible.
How I got started with ISP's is related to my classic computer experience,
however. I was originally hired to start an ISP and the company was using
Suns & Solaris, which I got *that* job solely due to my CoCo's OS-9
experience. I was the only applicant that had any type of experience with
anything *nix-like whatsoever, so using the "Scheisse rolls downhill"
theory, my job "was" directly related to my classic computer experience,
but in this world of bloated browsers & big databases, I cringe when
anything 4+ years old comes into the store...
The only pluses: I've never paid for long-term Internet service, I've
always had a minimum of T1 to the desktop at work, and I've met a lot of
interesting folks on the "Wild Wild Web."
However, I can vote for someone who's not on the list: Richard Hanson - he
runs Club 100 (www.club100.org) and has supported Tandy Model 100, 200 &
102 machines from 1983 until present. He's a darned good friend of mine,
and one helluva nice guy overall. If anybody needs anything for Model 'T's,
if he doesn't have, he can definately point you in the right direction.
Back to the salt mines,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.