It is really hard to believe, but 26 years ago today, I started my career as a IT professional. I was attending DeVry University at the time and found a job just down the street at a small company that provided IT services for local businesses.
Here is the conversation between me and Brook, their other technical guy:
Brook: I need you to replace a floppy drive in an Eagle.
Me: Cool. What’s an Eagle?
This is an Eagle:
Yep. Then genuine article. It ran an operating system called CP/M and had two double-sided, double-density floppy drives.
A step up from there was this monster:
This was a network server, again running CP/M and servicing semi-intelligent terminals. The top box is the server, the bottom, unless I’m mistaken, is the tape backup unit. The server had a 10 Megabyte hard drive. The terminal on the left is just a dumb terminal used for server maintenance.
Things have changed quite a bit since 1984 and the change has not always been for the good. But, I can honestly say, it’s never been boring.
Peace out.
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