Cherry Picker
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Ah the memories.
Remember when you had to load a CD driver in the autoexe.bat to get a CD drive to work?
When I started at the hospital all they had was an IBM Mainframe that had separate dishwasher sized components for each function of the system. It had a CPU box that had flip switches, then you started the IO (input/output) box, a 6mb memory box, then the 100mb hard drive was a flip open container you put in 5 13" platters,
I was hired in 1995 by HCA to install a $4.5 million dollar network that would connect the local hospital to the HCA network of 110 other hospitals. I had no training or ever even anything saying I knew crap about computers. They called me because they said they liked to hire locals, and everywhere they went in dodge and asked about someone with computer knowledge, my name came up. I was changing the oil on a car when they called. I was running a computer diagnostics system made by SUN. I spent my weekends building PCs and hanging CAT5 at the hospital. I set up 3Com closets first and I had to learn to install & manage on my own., then HCA changed to Cisco so I witch all routers & switches in my closets to Cisco and had to learn to install & manage on my own, then they went to Aruba and I switch them all out again.
Remember when you had to load a CD driver in the autoexe.bat to get a CD drive to work?
When I started at the hospital all they had was an IBM Mainframe that had separate dishwasher sized components for each function of the system. It had a CPU box that had flip switches, then you started the IO (input/output) box, a 6mb memory box, then the 100mb hard drive was a flip open container you put in 5 13" platters,
I was hired in 1995 by HCA to install a $4.5 million dollar network that would connect the local hospital to the HCA network of 110 other hospitals. I had no training or ever even anything saying I knew crap about computers. They called me because they said they liked to hire locals, and everywhere they went in dodge and asked about someone with computer knowledge, my name came up. I was changing the oil on a car when they called. I was running a computer diagnostics system made by SUN. I spent my weekends building PCs and hanging CAT5 at the hospital. I set up 3Com closets first and I had to learn to install & manage on my own., then HCA changed to Cisco so I witch all routers & switches in my closets to Cisco and had to learn to install & manage on my own, then they went to Aruba and I switch them all out again.