War Stories

I've been doing computer support professionally since November, 1982. And, oh, have I got stories...

Most of these stories involve people who are basicly innocent, and more intelegent than one might guess if this story was the only judge of their intelect, so I have changed/obscured the names and events when possible.  However, these stories happened AS I HAVE DESCRIBED THEM to the best of my recollection, and unless otherwise mentioned, to me.

If nothing else, save this page for a night of bad insomnia.

My Heathkit days (1982-1992)

• Getting hired at Heathkit at age 16 (revised 4/8/2022)
• Broken Floppy Drive
• Eats Disks
• Jumpy Monitor
• Ripping Off a Priest
• Wayne State University
• Airport Security
• How NOT to do serial interfacing
• Some of the more interesting thefts from the store (revised 3/10/2022)
• The Lady and the Amp
• Bill
• Birthdays at Heathkit
• Fuse blowing printer (2/14/2021)
• Tempest in a Desktop The computer I wasn't supposed to see (2/14/2021)
• Various entertaining phone calls (5/21/2022)
• The closing of the Heathkit stores (revised 4/8/2022)

Running my own business, Holland Consulting (1992-2005)

• Male and Female
• Power Failure
• The Backup Van
• Emergency repair at a hotel (2/14/2011)
• Worst Network I've encountered (11/11/2021)
• The Fifteen Minute Repair (4/13/2022)

Back to the real world of working for someone else (2005-)

• Adaptec RAID cards are junk (2/14/2021)
• Not the time I wanted to have my name recognized! (2/22/2021)

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