10 Nov
2008
10 Nov
'08
7:16 p.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
2008/11/10 David Griffith <dgriffi at
cs.csubak.edu>:
Someone who tries to call themselves an "IT professional" who has never
seen a general-purpose computer OS other than Windows is not someone I
would call "qualified". And I can guarantee they wouldn't get hired
here where I work, even for a Windows job.
Peace... Sridhar
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Antonio Carlini wrote:
I've worked with many qualified IT professionals who have never seen
any version of Windows older than XP (released 2001) and no other
general-purpose computer OS of any kind ever other than Windows. In my
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/10/2415393.htm
An IBM729 Mark 5 tape drive grabbed the data for NASA.
I presume that this implies NASA had tried and failed to find such a
drive via IBM?
Good to see that some old tapes retain their data!
Why do they call it a
"tape recorder". To me, that implies a device for
recording audio or video.