I'm an Industrial Designer and in 1992 every office just handed all computer tasks to the young. I learned about networks and planned a Novel 3.11 Network with

I'm an Industrial Designer and in 1992 every office just handed all computer tasks to the young. I learned about networks and planned a Novel 3.11 Network with a Mac NLM for a 30 person office. I then added an Ascend Pipeline 50 to connect an ISDN and added a nice layer or TCP/IP. This was probably the most exciting 5 years of learning. The Macs were all moved to system 7 which had built-n networking the PCs needed the Novel server to centrally share files. and we bought Asante NuBus internal cards for Mac SE/30 and the Mac IIs. We also used Asante SCSI to ethernet adaptors. I transformed from a Macintosh power user to system administrator. I was lucky to have exposure to IBM PCs because I learned the fundamentals and they haven't changed at all last time I looked. The Macs all hid their interrupts but could handle all the same default number peripherals as an IBM PC. The IBM PC had all sorts of configuration files. These files included describing the hard drive's mechanical specifics. The network cards all needed a to be assigned an open IRQ. This was the defining difference between a Macintosh and an IBM PC. The other more obvious difference was the GUI. I became a Metcalfe Law zealot. I actually feel we are entering the same sort of frenzy of new development.