2022 is my 25th year working in IT! Tech has definitely changed over the past 25 years. What was "cutting edge" when you started? I remember Windows 3.11 & Windows 95 X86 CPU's, Intel Pentium MMX, Pentium Pro, and Compuserve to name a few.
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Flashing your 28.8K modem to get 33.6K, what an amazing, free upgrade - not to mention calling it BAUD instead of bits per second :)
I started in a mainframe data center (Computer room). The room was 2K SF in size and was filled with the single mainframe, which included a total of 16Gb of data or 1/2 of the disk size on a minimum iPhone.
I moved to client server in 1991 and was building 386s with Windows 3.1 and having to remove excess files on 40Mb disks so I could create a swap file for memory and leave a little room to actually store end-user created docs. :)
Novell Netware - PC networking over, G/Net, Token Ring, and eventually Ethernet…. And then setup our Internet connection in 1991–. Wow those were exciting times!!
That sure does bring back some memories, I remember having a Novell Book Burning party when we migrated to Active Directory. Token Ring, Rebuilding TCP stacks in NT 3.51, Token Ring, Vampire Taps, etc.. It has been a ride full of wonderful and challenging changes. Loved every minute of it and still waiting for the next change request. :)
Getting AppleTalk to run on our Netware 3.11 server was my first project as a newly-hired PC/Network Tech. I didn’t really know much about either one but figured it out! 😁
I started with Pentium II, Win 95 and Windows ME, modem, crt monitor and floppy disk