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    Quote Originally Posted by jgziegler View Post
    I was a huge Mac guy, but over the years I think they are more and more like Microsoft.

    Anyway, I need a notebook, and I saw they had just released a new Macbook. I was all excited, except when I saw that it only had 1 USB port. I think wireless devices are a waste of batteries usually, and bluetooth drains your phone like nothing else. As I will be using a projector as my TV, 1 USB is simply not an option.

    Regretfully, I will be switching to W10, I'm always amazed how my 6 year old OSX 10.5.5 works better than W7 and the other versions. That being said, it's hard to justify the hundreds of extra dollars to pay just so I can live the computing lifestyle apple wants to me live...
    The new Mac Pro has 4 USB ports. Not nearly enough. I bought a hub.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Markadiddle View Post
    Well, where do I even begin?

    I guess I've pretty much done it all. Started out programming back in the early 80's. COBOL, CICS, RPG, Assembler BAL and Fortran. Got bored with that and decided to go over to the networking and hardware side of the house.

    I hold a bachelors degree in comp science and a AA degree in programming. I'm a MCSE and have my Comp TIA+ cert. In my current position, I manage three locations for one of the largest auto auctions in Northern Cali. I do everything on the network and phone side, project planning and management all the way down to end user support. I wear many hats in my position. Heck, about 6 months ago, I was even installing new infrastructure for one of our locations and I was out jack hammering asphalt because I needed new conduit laid for wiring.
    Wow, you have done quite a bit. I did assembler, cics, cobol, pl-1, and easytrieve on the mainframe until they retired it where I'm working.

    I'm now doing .NET programming web pages and the code-behind. It's something new to learn and I enjoy it except for th eway they set our framework up. It's very difficult to deal with.

    I only have an AA in computer science.

    Take care
    Jim
    Take care and seeya!

    Jim

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bish View Post


    I hope I don't disappoint.

    Right out of high school a landed a car mechanics job at our local Sears Service Center. I became their front end specialist with Baer alignment as my specialty. I know why they gave it to me. Try getting under a car that has just come in from a snow storm for a front end alignment or brake job. The slush and salt you get to sit in makes the rest of the day a real joy. After that I fell into TV and Appliance retail sales due to a motorcycle injury. Hehehe...another story.

    I worked from a part time deliverer to store manager over a few years. That was about a 60 + hour a week job and life as I knew it. (I had 3 kids during that time. I know because my wife showed me pictures.)

    I was lured away from appliance sales when a friend started his own business and wanted to merge his manufacturing/inventory control/wholesale distribution management software with a front end retail function. He hired me to be his consultant to design, help write the code and market to the retail public. We incorporated bar coding and electronic cash drawers. That was 1990.

    To supplement revenue we took on local jobs installing and supporting Novell networks. We built and marketed our own line of PC's. I was the first one to use black cases. However, finding a matching tube monitor at the time didn't happen so black cases still took a while to catch on.

    We also landed jobs to install Windows 3.1 onto Novell networks so users could have a graphical interface while using their network. That was the first migration away from a text driven menu system for the user.

    I went on my own after the business took off and worked locally for different businesses while honing my skills and learning everything I could about Windows networking and the internet. (Pretty much modems and bulletin boards at the time. I never thought the internet would catch on.)

    I've been in charge of large corporations (John Deere I was a project manager for their compliance to Y2K software project) and medium size manufacturing shops as well as field technician for a few years. I set up complete networks and security systems and laid out wireless networks for mfg shop floors and other areas.

    I've pretty much sunk my teeth into everything except programming. I've written little DOS batch files that were pretty cool at the time. (pre Windows)

    Currently I'm the IT Specialist for a local credit union. They used to farm out most of their work but getting timely support was difficult at best so they went looking for a specialist to hire full time and I won the position. They were in the process of moving all of their computers at every branch from XP to Win 7 and were doing one a week in house since the VP of Member services and the VP of Lending were doing all in house requests.

    I was doing four a day only because I didn't really have a server room or large enough office in my branch to lay out any more computers than that. I also didn't have any monitors to work with so monitor sharing made it interesting. I've opened two new branches and converted all the analog ATM's to IP based as well as set up wireless conference rooms for the board members monthly meetings, to name a few projects. I've won at Free Cell more ti.....ummm never mind.

    I've been there just a year and a half but think I've become part of the family.

    All said, this is a great job with a very good group of people. I hope to stay here for a while.
    Yes, you've been quite busy there Bish.

    When I got out of school at 40 years old, I went to work at a major health provider as a mainframe programmer. I got laid off there, on my birthday even, and then went to the company I'm at now. We are an electronic database for Marine and all aspects of air travel. We hook up buyers and sellers and help with the negotiations. We have quite a big business and were bought by Boeing a couple of years back.

    Take care!
    Jim
    Take care and seeya!

    Jim

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    Quote Originally Posted by pgm554 View Post
    Started off as a field engineer for a small computer company that made a turnkey system for pharmacies.

    Worked on the hardware side for DEC and a few others and moved to sysadmin stuff doing Novell Netware.

    I now do consulting gigs for biotech startups spec'ing the tech and contractors in the Silicon Valley.

    I live just a few miles from where it all began off of Sand Hill Road.
    Cool! It sounds like most IT people here at DrumChat are in the hardware/network side of things. I used to play around with all the different hardware trying to learn more and more and then I just decided to do the software part since that's what I always wanted to do. My son is in the hardware part so I get him to do all my hardware stuff.

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    JIm
    Take care and seeya!

    Jim

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    We seem to have a very cracker jack team of IT professionals.

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