Sandevino
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- First Name
- Mike
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- Jun 14, 2022
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- North Texas
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Oh the stories we can tell but no one wants to hear. Everyone today has no idea what we had to "develop" and come up with and they all take it for granted today. Object oriented is childs play....but I digress....lolNo kidding. Windows NT, OS2......... our engineers couldn't wait to get their hands on Pentium systems.
I worked with a guy who was taking a break from being professor of computer science at an Iowa college. He told me of his days when HP contacted him to come up with drivers for their latest printer line - oh, we need it next week. He said he stacked Mountain Dew and Snickers bars in his "closet" and stayed all weekend until it was done.
I talked at length one time with a head engineer from YMS - Young Microsystems, then a maker of a very good, reliable and compact 486 board. He talked about the pressures of designing the next system board and how their health coverage was good - and the part used most often was mental health portion when the engineers suffered breakdowns from the stress.
I was also dealing with converting a major international corporate away from thin net/Ethernet to 10BaseT with the head of IT insisting there was nothing wrong with coax Ethernet and no, 10 different coax LANs running to multiple boards in a single server was fine. Each network card supported from 2 to 4 networks. He killed that Netware server because it was so busy routing traffic it couldn't deal with login attempts.
Stressful work - keep up or get left in the dust. I really liked that head of IT - he was my boss and we were basically friends. It was a sad day when I realized I was the reason he was let go.
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