creepingnet
Veteran Member
Everything I've done in the IT industry has been a result of my "playing" with old computers. I have a firmer understanding than most people do of how to fix this or that problem. Shoot, I've done board level repairs, the occasional jury rig to postpone downtime till it's suitable, getting data off of a 20 year old computer for work. I feel fortunate that there are those kinds of opportunities out there, the unfortuanate part is that they are far and in-between. It's a bane somewhat too because I piss off all these guys who run XP, have a Pentium IV, and have been at this 10-30 years instead of my 5, since they usually write me off as some punk-kid with a 486 still on his desk.