Subj : Re: Real Modem on VOIP?
To   : Grant Weasner
From : Bo Holt
Date : Thu Oct 01 2026 08:37 pm

GW> I know the feeling. My boss doesn't know what I do, or anything about it. 
GW> boss isn't even in the same country or time zone. 
GW> 
GW> I remember attempting to talk about IT solutions, and just stuff I was
GW> interested in that hadn't become super mainstream, and the IT people just
GW> looked at me like I was on another planet. Something about the business un
GW> we support causes most people to hide, deny, or reject their IT computing
GW> profession or passion. Some of the people attempted to buy expensive golf
GW> equipment, talk about golf while sucking at it, and never ever being accep
GW> by the business for anything more than service crew. They/we were called "
GW> IT guy." I think the IT crew felt low in the hierachy. 
GW> 
GW> On team meetings when I share my screen some of them call it the matrix. I
GW> just a simple terminal accessing some RHEL system or who knows what nothin
GW> out of the ordinary, but they struggle with stuff like ping-ing ICMP echo
GW> another computer. Some of them created amazing and useful web applications
GW> but as I said rejected their IT roots, ... except one of them, although he
GW> didn't talk about it much he was hardcore. He retired and currently restor
GW> pinball and old arcade systems. 
GW> 
GW> Sure do wish there were more computer people where I work, but I can say I
GW> luck to be where I am. 
GW> 
GW> I also wish I had a real POTS line, I did do some stuff with my USR 56k ov
GW> the network via an SPA 122, and an opensource pbx. 
GW> 
GW>  BH> cubes, I don't know how I could do it.  I have 263 days more left bef
GW>  BH> can retire from this with immediate benfits and go somehwere real.  E
GW>  BH> day they are making it harder and harder to keep my mouth shut ;)
GW> 
GW> Hang in there. You've gone to far to exit without that retirement. 
GW> BBsing, Sysop of Lunar Outpost, lunarout.sycnhro.net
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Bingo.  You hit pretty much all my points.  Interestingly enough, the other 
people who are most into computers other than me, who collect vintage stuff 
even, are in their 20s, very early 30s.  I am 45.

And thank you!  At this point, it is 242 more days or exactly 8 months.

.... I wish my brain had expansion slots.

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