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Well, in defense of my youth, I am pretty sure we were installing Windows 3.0. These guys at waited a long time to switch.

I remember how wonderful even that was compared to the old way!

It was a little bit of a scary place to work... It was a Morton chemical plant that was making some unpronounceable susbstance that was so caustic they had weekly random evacuation drills with sirens and everything! We all had to go across the street while they went through a whole containment drill. It was usually good for a couple hours if we had errands to run.

They had to conform to IPO 9000 standards on their procedures, even office procedures... Have you ever worked in that environment? - It was unimaginably tedious.

Windows 3.0 was so much better than the previous version... and 3.1 was ever better.

I've never worked in an ISO 9000 house, but the place I was working at back in '96 was just starting to work on qualifying for it (they were a government contractor) at the time I left them... the preliminary steps struck me as being very unnecessary, especially in a small company (which it was).

I once interviewed at a nuclear plant in Ohio... everyone had to wear dosimeter badges (even me, as a visitor). One of the big questions at the interview was whether I had any moral objection to working at a plant that helped produce nuclear weapons. I didn't, but I wound up not taking the job anyway. I'd read the book "Nerves" by Lester del Rey at an early age (it's about an accidental meltdown at a nuclear plant.)