Hello everybody ...
I've been working in Information Technology since 1968. I started out in computer operations at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada on IBM mainframes. At that time it was one of the largest computer installations in Canada. To give you an idea of how far we've come, the larger of the two machines there had 256K + 512K in what they called Large Core Storage, or LCS. That gave a grand total of 768K! (that's right - kilobytes - not megabytes or gigabytes). The disk drives were huge and looked like a stack of 12" vinyl records spaced about 1/2 inch apart. These were the latest model of IBM 2314 drives: 14MB each.
I'm in the market for a new laptop, and I've been looking at quad-core cpu's, 8 gigs of ram or more, and terabyte disk drives which all fits in a little flat box with an 18 inch LCD screen and built-in stereo, camera, and high definition optical drives. As I was saying, we've come a long way.
I'm not new to running unix and linux on PCs. I worked with SCO Xenix on Intel computers in the late 80's while employed at Oracle Corporation. I was a technical support person attached to their marketing group in the Ottawa office and headed the micro and mini-computer group with a staff of one - me! I started working with Linux in the early 90's and moved on to include Sun Solaris and HP U/X (with Oracle database, of course).
I'm not a newbie by any stretch, but I don't usually make the time to post to any forums. I have six of my own computers to maintain so there's always something to do. I'm trying to replace MS Windows with Linux on all the machines, and with Ubuntu 9.04 I've pretty much got what I need through the Ubuntu and other Opensource groups.
I hope to be able to get involved more in this and other Linux forums. We'll see how things go over the next few months.
Steve
Hello, my name is Steve and this is my first post at LQ.
