Hello, I'm Chirkware...new to this site, but not to PC's. Been tinkering with PC's since 4Mb RAM was a lot! I've been at it professionally for 12 years now.
Got started when a bunch of old computers (we're talking 8088's, 286's, and some 386's) got donated to the school my mother was an aid at. No one knew what to do with them, and no one seemed to be volunteering, so she and I started trying to get them up and running. Finally started loading IBM DOS 5.0 (using a SINGLE 1.44Mb floppy I customized) and Word Perfect 5.1. LOL...good times!
Now I Administer a VM Ware environment with four hosts that have dual 12-core Opteron processors and 128GB RAM each. LOL...VERY good times!
"Chirkware" comes from a nickname(Chirk) a teacher gave me in high school (this was 20+ years ago), adding "ware" to indicate my imaginary computer hardware brand...Chirkware.
Got started when a bunch of old computers (we're talking 8088's, 286's, and some 386's) got donated to the school my mother was an aid at. No one knew what to do with them, and no one seemed to be volunteering, so she and I started trying to get them up and running. Finally started loading IBM DOS 5.0 (using a SINGLE 1.44Mb floppy I customized) and Word Perfect 5.1. LOL...good times!
Now I Administer a VM Ware environment with four hosts that have dual 12-core Opteron processors and 128GB RAM each. LOL...VERY good times!
"Chirkware" comes from a nickname(Chirk) a teacher gave me in high school (this was 20+ years ago), adding "ware" to indicate my imaginary computer hardware brand...Chirkware.