How many of you are CompTIA A+ Certified?

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But times have certainly changed. Like all technology once it gets started, it is attacked by the masses and opened up to blossom into something better and bigger.

Now a days do you even need to know what an irq conflict is or what COM port uses IRQ 3 or 5 ?

That is the biggest thing I noticed. Oh those were the fun days of chasing down irq conflicts between a mouse and the sound card...

Haha, I guess I am old school too. I remember those days.
You learned a lot about how your PC worked when you wanted to get that newest game working. Tweaking your autoexec.bat and config.sys to maximize that first 640k of RAM.

I earned a CNA in Novell 3.x and was a SysAdmin for a small 4 server network with about 40 PCs. We spent a lot of time planning for Y2K which turned out to be a non-issue.

I then got my MCSE in the Windows NT track and spent years as a "road warrior" consultant. Picked up a few misc MCP's in various things like Active Directory. I think my last cert was obtained in 2005?

Now I spend my time with ERP systems and primarily Microsoft SQL with some misc .Net programming when something custom is needed. And reports, so many reports.