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One of my first jobs in IT was replacing POS terminals at a large sporting goods chain. Netware server, DOS terminals, DOS drive mappings and networking fun st
by bluedino 7y ago
One of my first jobs in IT was replacing POS terminals at a large sporting goods chain.
Netware server, DOS terminals, DOS drive mappings and networking fun stuff and it was in the days of Windows 2000 so a lot of the MSCE's didn't know anything about DOS drivers etc. Or they, were smart enough to pretend that they didn't so they didn't get stuck with this assignment.
- nobleach 7y agoOh man, Netware in the era of Windows 2000!! I had a few of these hold outs. Many of my clients were on WinNT 3.5 with a Netware 3.1 server. Getting the windows admins to understand loading NLMs and using the different console tools was "fun". I only got to toy with one Netware 4.11. And that was just using NwAdmin95 (so the joys of learning NDS). I had it set up in my home lab too as I was planning on getting my CCNA... then I moved to a Windows only place and worked on getting them to adopt Linux.
- bluedino 7y agoYea, we had 'team red' (novell) vs 'team blue' (MS) I was team Linux. So team black was they ended up naming it.
- nobleach 7y agoI love it! I managed to get one client to do a "drop in" Netware replacement using some wire compatible netware replacement (I can't even remember the name) Their machines still kept the Netware login and everything. Good old days.