from FB group Vintage Transistor Radios 2018-11-24<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Early on, I built and upgraded many PCs when they became popular. \nSome for myself and friends, but most at work. Before that I was \nmaintaining and repairing terminals and other equipment attached to \nmainframe computers. It started out small with TRS-80s and Apples but \nreally took off with the IBM PCs and clones. But after many years of \ncompetitive bids with some bad experiences we finally settled on Dell \nPCs. The road wasn\u2019t totally smooth, but we managed to keep hundreds of \nPCs running despite bubblegum and soft drinks getting into everything. \nIt all came down to economics: It was cheaper to replace with new PCs \nthan attempting to upgrade. Technology changed too fast. No more Ribbon \ncables, no more floppies to get full of dirt, most of the adapter cards \ncame on the motherboard. Everything changed with USB. And of course \nthere was the LAN and then the Internet. So the whole PC became less \nstandalone and more of a system and our job was more about \ninterconnectivity and less about maintaining and repair. It was some \nquite amazing changes in technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
from FB group Vintage Transistor Radios 2018-11-24 Early on, I built and upgraded many PCs when they became popular. Some for myself and friends, but most at work. Before that I was maintaining and repairing terminals and other equipment attached to mainframe computers. It started out small with TRS-80s and Apples but really took off <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13142,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions\/13142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}