Subj : Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Wed Oct 08 2025 08:46:23

>  DW> Luckily, there were a few places in the 1990s where one could get a job
>  DW> with a related degree and then get OTJ training.  That is where I
>  DW> learned most of what I know and used professionally.

>  My first "real" IT job, I was hired to do billing reconciliation of
>  call accounting records - basically all Excel. I somehow was then
>  allowed to do moves, adds and changes on the phone system, then
>  managing a Novell network and a dial-up wide area network very similar
>  to Fidonet. I learned all I needed from books and playing around with
>  spare equipment (and a supportive mentor).

"Those were the days..."  ;)


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