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Circuit City Kaput
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:40:11 -0500, hk wrote:
wrote: On Jan 18, 10:16 pm, hk wrote: http://www.idesigns.net A real business, no Lobsta' boats or cut and paste here snerk Not likely: "Scott is a marketing advisor and also handles the testing of new features and software, though a boat builder by trade. In his spare time he can be found designing, building, and testing his boats." God help your "clients." Tried your helpdesk and knowledge base, got this: Welcome to helpdesk.idesigns.net This site is under Re-Construction Please come back again soon! Who designed your webpage? A kid with a box of crayolas? Pfffttt. we missed on link, but of course there is a hundred other links on the site to the same place.. Anyway, go back to your plug and play ram installation. I still would run circles around you any day... Now go back to your plug and play ram installation.. I got that same error message on more than one link. And there is still no evidence here you know squat about computers or networking. The sorts of problems and questions you have brought up here indicate the opposite. At best, his wife is a CNA, which is barely an entry level certifcation. That cert appears to be at least 10 years old, so it's worthless anyway. Scotty is a hanger-on. The business would be doing just as well without him. |
#153
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Circuit City Kaput
wrote in message ... On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:04:07 -0800, "Calif Bill" wrote: First disk drives I worked on were 5 platter, 14" 5 mbyte units. 2311s? They were the 360 version of the 1401 era 1311. Same basic pack but double density, I was an NCR guy. Our own drives. We replaced a 360 ,mod 20 at Macys with an NCR 315 system. The Mod 20 had paper tape and card input and printer output. No mag files. Just an expensive Tab system. |
#154
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Circuit City Kaput
wrote in message ... On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:26:26 -0800, "Calif Bill" wrote: wrote in message . .. On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:03:40 -0800, "Calif Bill" wrote: I was an NCR guy. Our own drives. We replaced a 360 ,mod 20 at Macys with an NCR 315 system. The Mod 20 had paper tape and card input and printer output. No mag files. Just an expensive Tab system. Were they hydraulic too or had you migrated to the voice coil system by then? I know some companies just rebadged our drives (Control Data springs to mind) If you were around mod 20s you know what MFCM really means ;-) They were voice coils. We did not go hydraulic for a couple years. We actually designed one of first disk drives. Our idiot leaders went into a joint venture with CDC and they took the disk drives and we took printers. Bad deal from all the FE's view point. We saw disk drives to be the better product line in the future. Later when I left NCR, I went to Itel and worked on the channel diagnostics for our Siemens clone of the IBM 3800 printer. We used a DEC 11/34 as the channel controller to the printer and since we had to run IBM diags cleanly, I disassembled the code and found the hidden channel codes that were sent and what was expected back. Still probably the most fun job I had. Great people in the team and great company to work for. We connected to a 33xx clone from Hitachi. IBM started with hydraulics in disk drives(305 through 2314) and in high speed printers (1403), then changed to the voice coil disk drive (33xx and up) and servo or stepper motor printers (3211 and beyond). I spent a lot of time with 3800s in the 80s. We had 35 of them in my office and over 70 in the DC metro area. It was pretty much where I spent most of my time. By then CPUs were not really breaking and we didn't have any check sorters. Back in the days when CPUs broke I had a chance to work with Itel guys. I worked midnights and nobody was around to enforce the rules about not assisting if a 3d party was present. I remember one of those "6 vendor" nights tracking down a channel bug with the Itel guy stepping microcode on his AS/5 and me shadowing him on my 3158. If there was ever a chance for them to say they didn't steal our stuff it went away that night. We were just calling out stop words back and forth with each of us alternating which one we looked up. The I/O vendors were acknowledging they got that far. We ended up nailing the T-bar switch guy to the wall. My move to Florida changed all of that. We had the C&S data center here in Ft Myers. 3800s and 3890s. This was a resident territory so we worked on everything here and I really had the most fun with point of sale stuff. Wendys ended up rolling out their new PC based registers in Naples because they liked our operation (I had also worked on the Burger King rollout). We invented the hot swap procedure for printers on the old 3684 systems in my shop and had the only field rebuild program in the country. A 3684 was my first woodie, before I started making wood case PCs. We had a clone of a Wendy's store in our shop to test things. (2 registers). I even got to meet Dave on rollout night. Wendys gave me one of the new registers to play with in the shop. \ Fun days. NCR paid for part of my university tuition with a tuition refund plan. About 50% total as they did not cover books. And state university tuition was between $125 and $250 a semester. I worked on the NCR 315 and Century systems and the 420 Optical scanner. That scanner pretty much paid for my house. After my degree, I was the liaison to Montgomery Wards in the west. Still took care of the scanner as there were 2 of in the US who could really fix the machine. Me and a guy in Chicago. But I decided where the problems were with the POS systems. Store, Data Center, or in between. Finally got fed up with the service manager in San Francisco with his BS and took a huge raise to go to Itel. Then the H systems killed us and the residual value of our leases and they laid off 2300 of us. Went to several startups over the years. Screwed up in Feb 1980. Took a job in designing disk drive controllers for DEC systems supplier company and turned down the same salary 1.5 hours later for Rolm Corp. As I had already agreed to the first job. I figure that 1.5 hours cost me $100,000,000. Neighbor went from Rolm to another startup in the comm industry and then to Cisco as the VP. He cashed out $240 million after taxes. |
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