@jextxadore Queues far away from a continent filled with places I have to support and babysit. Sounds like heaven.
@kdfrawg Imagine sitting there and seeing places like Sears selling systems twice as powerful and half as expensive as the IBM PS/2 stuff we were peddling.
"Uhhh. Guys. You need to do something and fast."
crickets
// @skematica
@kdfrawg I've approached every business i've subsequently been involved with afterwards with, "How would ComputerLand Inc have NOT approached this".
What a sad and dismal ending they had.
// @skematica
@kdfrawg One of my fondest memories is from ComputerLand corporate.
Picture an ailing Data General server hosting Novel 3.5. A machine that an entire sales force loathed.
Picture me placing it in the back of a pickup
Picture me filling the rest of the truck with sales geeks
Picture a drive to the country.
Picture giving the sales geeks a quick how-to on how to operate a .308 rifle.
Picture a Data General server in a million pieces.
Picture the bon fire and beer afterwards :D
// @skematica
@larand It's nearly done. Just very minor details left. Bed lining has already been sprayed in. The emblems have been polished and cleaned. I think there's an issue with a transmission line and this is exactly why I am wearing a very expensive shirt. ;)
@skematica Yeah. You spend dozens of hours of time tracking down something that five minutes and a few dollars would take care of.
Took me YEARS to figure that out because I am the proverbial spoon in a knife drawer.
I feel a disturbance in the force. As if one lone voice is pleading for assistance on a Ford Ranchero.
NO!
I wore an expensive dress shirt for that very reason. I'm not playing grease monkey today.
@kdfrawg That's when the system gets set on a fence post then shot with a hunting rifle.
// @skematica
@hazardwarning And I will toast you with my Maker's Mark or Zifandel (Undecided) when I escape my bondage here in Silicon Valley Mayberry.
// @JeremyCherfas @skematica @peemee @kdfrawg @c