I was reading a recent article from the New York Times titled "Make Sure the Problem Is Not in Your Chair" and thought of some of the interesting issues that have been presented to me as a systems technician over the years.  Issues like getting calls from users asking "Where is the "any" key?" when their application asks "Press any key to continue".  The article talked about how users will unknowingly damage their computers.  I know many people that have laptops (my daughter included) that wi...
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I have been working with computer systems for way over twenty years.  During that time, computers have changed the world.  My first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer (First Generation).  It hooked up to my 12" Color TV.  I was able to write computer programs in BASIC or in a machine language using POKE and PEEK commands.  Programs were saved on magnetic cassettes using a cassette tape recorder.  I could get a 5 1/4 Floppy Drive but that was expensive.  There were also game cartridges that ...
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