Back at my old job, we had a “Configuration Center.” It was an area that was dedicated to unboxing and building/deploying new desktops and laptops for an agricultural/construction equipment manufacturer. When a good portion of the downstairs area was remodeled, our entryway got a magnetized security door which was opened by our access badge on [...]
We had a printer repair contract with a company that did work for Uncle Sam. The new building there was to be a secure facility when it was completed. In about the center of that facility, was a room it had a raised computer floor and TWO hand print activated doors to go through to [...]
Back in the 90′s I was working for a large manufacturing corporation. In these days, we were still transitioning over to ethernet from token-ring, and as such, we had a token-ring gateway sitting on the shelf of our room. This actually was a PC running software on an IBM Model 30…this was in the days [...]
“Just got handed a Compaq Presario laptop, it is older than the dust in my basement. It has a fried backlight, useless CDROM, and dead battery. “Can you clean this up so I can give it to someone who doesn’t have a computer?” I offered to destroy the hard drive and drop it off at [...]
“I work at a university tech support desk (ran by students.) One afternoon, this girl and her posse come up to the desk, saying that her iPhone wont connect to her computer. I say ok and ask her to bring it out. She brings out this …tragedy. She told me that she microwaved her brand [...]
One day, I get a call to fix a printer issue. “The printer keeps printing weird stuff!” I’m told. As I approach the network printer the teacher pulls off several print jobs of strange number/letter codes in very large fonts. As they throw them into the trash can with the others print jobs….I take a [...]
Hmmm … had to be back in my programming days when I would receive data tapes (from hospitals) and had to offload all the data onto a CD Jukebox device, which was “bleeding edge” tech @ that time (another story). I was trying to download data from an important client and could not get anything [...]
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I walked into work one morning and the company receptionist immediately greeted me with “Mornin! Hey the network’s down.” Unfortunately it wasn’t the first time my morning as network manager started that way. I made my way to my office to dump my stuff and see what was going on. Since my office was as [...]