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Do you think what your dad did, helped you become a grey-beard?
by balls187 5y ago
Do you think what your dad did, helped you become a grey-beard?
- bloopernova 5y agoHe helped more about a decade later when getting me into DOS games: He'd configure AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS which I could then look at after he was done playing. I'd attribute more to my own purchase of a PC when I was learning to walk after a road accident, and being part of the Windows 95 preview program. That got my foot in the door as a software tester and support tech. Becoming a sysadmin happened rapidly after that.
- balls187 5y agoHah! Learning to craft a custom autoexec.bat to run Doom with 4MB of ram is how I got "into" computers as well. I turned pale as snow the first time I hit (F5?) during boot to bypass it. I had no idea if what I was doing was permanent or just temporary.