18 Feb
2014
18 Feb
'14
9:01 a.m.
On 2/17/14 3:42 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 02/17/2014 11:01 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Um. In *2003* I couldn't rely on having an Internet connection
on-site. My laptop was equipped with modem, ethernet and token ring.
Pre ubiquitous wireless and Internet phones, a lot of facilities I
worked in did not allow random contractors to jack random laptops into
their networks, and quite a few ran phone systems that were not
modem-friendly.
I vote with Liam on this one. Going into a job expecting to download
stuff was always a bad idea.
Doc
On 17 February 2014 17:50, Chuck Guzis <cclist
at sydex.com> wrote:
1997? Golly. In 1994, I sold IBM a self-extracting program for their
support BBS. It could run on either OS/2 or DOS (or NT).
So I suppose your employer, in 1997 didn't allow you laptops or modems
either? As a point of interest, 1997 was the date of the *last*
update of the program delivered to IBM. (You can still find the files on
the web).
Who was your employer? EMCC, perchance? I'm not following. I have self-extracting
boot floppies made in 1997
still
on my system.
I used to be a field engineer. I needed tools with me, on-site.
In 1997 I could not rely on having an Internet connection, let alone
broadband, at the client's site or in my office.