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My first job out of college I worked for a man that had left the world of mainframes for the then-new world of the IBM PC. His reasoning was: "It's such a smal
by chiph 13y ago
My first job out of college I worked for a man that had left the world of mainframes for the then-new world of the IBM PC. His reasoning was: "It's such a small box. It shouldn't be hard to know everything there is to know about it."
2 years later, he realized just how wrong he was.
With the truly stupendous number of potential things to know about today, not knowing something is the far-more-common case. And there shouldn't be any shame in not having heard about something.
- walshemj 13y agoActually the original IBM PC (5150/5160) was simple when compared to a big iron systems of the day I recall we had the full IBM hardware and software guides for our IBM PC and they where a couple of small A5 binders.