When a decision changes your life, forever...
My first computer was a 1982 Osborne 1 with 64 kb (that's kilobytes) of memory, two 90k floppy drives, and a Brother serial printer.
At the time I worked at IBM's customer service division (later we called it the devision) and at a meeting management asked if anyone had experience using computers. When I was the only one to raise my hand I was told I was the new southeast Florida field service tech for the new IBM PC.
That job got me into the office of a R&D manager working on his early non production prototype PC and after we chatted he "pulled" me from the service division and hired me in the development labs. From there I became the "Entry Systems Division" "Fireman" where I traveled the world bringing up new or failing assembly lines. Now I'm a retiree and still enjoy the benefits of working there
My $1700 Osborn investment went a L-O-N-G way to making a career for me, one I'll be forever grateful that I made.
My first computer was a 1982 Osborne 1 with 64 kb (that's kilobytes) of memory, two 90k floppy drives, and a Brother serial printer.
At the time I worked at IBM's customer service division (later we called it the devision) and at a meeting management asked if anyone had experience using computers. When I was the only one to raise my hand I was told I was the new southeast Florida field service tech for the new IBM PC.
That job got me into the office of a R&D manager working on his early non production prototype PC and after we chatted he "pulled" me from the service division and hired me in the development labs. From there I became the "Entry Systems Division" "Fireman" where I traveled the world bringing up new or failing assembly lines. Now I'm a retiree and still enjoy the benefits of working there
My $1700 Osborn investment went a L-O-N-G way to making a career for me, one I'll be forever grateful that I made.