[NoCmpromiz]

PC World once asked me to devise a test for national chain repair shops.

So that was you...

I remember that test. Caused me to add 'check drive cable' to my list of stuff-to-do-to-resurrect-dead-pcs...

But I never did find a bad one.

I’m much older than 32-bit PCs..

Which means you know the difference between a XT and an AT? And you know what MCA is. And the numbers 8088 and 80286 mean something.

Unless you go back further than that in which case Z80, Osborne and KayPro are meaningful. And CPM is magic.. ;-)

Disclaimer: I never played with a CPM machine. I entered the era of personal computing with a version of something that Bill Gates bought and repackaged. What I now remember of DOS commands is marginal.. But I still have my DOS 6 book buried in the stash somewhere just in case..

[ArGee]

By now you’ve seen that I’ve met Adam Osbourne.

My first “desktop” computer had no ROM. We had to key in the instructions so it could read the paper tape in the teletype machine to load the BASIC interpreter.

THAT’S BOOTING, BABY!

Yes, I go way, way back. Not to Eniac, but close.