Re: In the pass 15-20 years or so
I come from a hardware /electronics background and sort of drifted into IT.... I started off as a YTS trainee and saw my first IBM AT PC. It was two years before I found out it comes with a cover as it was always open for testing ISA cards.
So now I'm in IT, trying to recover data off a HDD in a PC too small for two drives, I tend to leave the case off, monitor balanced on PSU, cables everywhere - I think that the other people are too scared to touch it in case they get electrocuted.
Bunch of pansies - using RDP to connect to a virtual server. Bet they never burnt their fingers with a soldering iron, the smell of magic smoke, or felt the jolt of 120V from a discharged capacitor!!*
* From a LCD PSU PCB - had laying unplugged on the desk for 24 hours before I picked it up
Biting the hand that feeds IT
