half density floppies

Hey, some of us still have tape storage 🙂

@CVQuesty I missed this earlier but my old contract friend Pete Stubbs who has everything stashed somewhere responded...

NICE! Both MS-DOS 6.2 and WFW 3.11!!!

I remember when DOS 6 came out. That was quite the shindig

I entered the Win95 closed beta program not long after that

nice. I may have both of those.... not in unopened shrinkwrap though

I distinctly recall throwing all that away when I migrated over to Linux + Mac.

That was around 2001, I believe

Pretty sure I still have some OS/2 install media around, somewhere

I was a BBS Sysop for years. Started out with Desqview/X for most of my boards. I wanted to go to OS/2 because it seemed superior. I went to the local computer store and there was an IBM bundle straight from IBM: IBM/Alaris SLC266 Mobo + Mitsumi CDRom and controller + a copy of OS/2 Warp for line $199, I think it was. KILLER deal at the time, so I bought it. After much fighting and fidgeting with it, I just couldn't get it working, so I started the phone support train to figure out what was happening. Turns out that the Alaris chipset was incompatible with OS/2 and the Mitsumi drive was also incompatible with OS/2. OS/2 didn't die because it wasn't superior (still see it in the IBM P-series controllers today). It failed because the right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing, and they were stupid enough to ship out 3 items in a bundle, none of which worked with each other. I had to wait months to get drivers from IBM, Mitsumi, and Alaris to make everything work together, and it still was never quite right.

It didn't help that OS/2 ran Windows better than Windows could run itself, so there never got to be an ecosystem independent of Microsoft

Once I got it all ironed out, I had 10 BBS instances running 10 landlines via a Digiboard concentrator. That was a sweet symphony of v.42bis

You need to stop cross-posting to literally every Slack channel you can find. Posting like this pisses people off and shows you don’t have the judgement to be a stable employee. Targeted and stategic posting is a much better way to go. (Context: this guy cross posted into two other groups I’m in not related to Puppet OR software engineering in the least)

@drobinson++ @CVQuesty++

@Dr Bunsen Honeydew hey get in here

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Hi - looking for the puppet migration. we have one old control repo and one puppet module thats needs to upgraded to puppet version 7, puppet server will run on the amazon linux2. if anyone interested let me know.

We have an opening on my team at Harvard. I’m looking for someone with cloud and hybrid architecture experience, who can lead projects, drive progress, and is able to mentor folks. If those things sound familiar and appealing to you and you’re interested in working around supercomputing resources to enable science, please let me know. This is a full time hybrid position, though realistically, we only have in person meetings about once a quarter, so working remotely from US states on Harvard’s list is fine. Harvard uses pay grades. This position is a grade 58, so the top end of the range is $150k. The job listing is here. I’m happy to discuss specifics and answer questions any time.

Puppet Master at CERN is now advertised: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CERN/744000003093220-compute-services-engineer-it-cd-cc-2024-114-ld- This is actually my job being advertised as I'm moving else where at CERN.

Our 2025 Graduate and Intern positions in Belfast are now live. We are looking for 2 Graduates and 2 Interns to start in September 2025 If you know of anyone who would be a good fit please share. https://jobs.lever.co/perforce/4722adf8-649d-4a36-86cc-44d5f8698e8f https://jobs.lever.co/perforce/590b3df1-0116-4f0b-bbb4-147910bfad85

Know Bazel? Know Python? Want to work more with Puppet? DM me

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bryxx-nv_do-you-want-a-career-as-middleware-or-devops-activity-7247153104180113408-uRyr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android Bryxx are doing internships

Looking for a software engineer in Warsaw area to join my team. https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/boxinc/jobs/6176792

[HIRING][Chamblee, Georgia, USA, Onsite] 🏢 Experient Group, based in Chamblee, Georgia 🇺🇸 is looking for a Lead ADO Site Reliability Engineer 🔧 Tech used: Azure, Docker, Git, GitHub, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform, .NET Framework 💰 80 - 100 USD / hour 🔎 More details and option to apply: https://devitjobs.com/jobs/Experient-Group-Lead-ADO-Site-Reliability-Engineer/sgp

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Know some Python? Terraform/grunt/tofu? Want to work more with Puppet? Willing to work onsite in the south bay area? DM me

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My current contract expires Feb this year, if anyone has any leads for puppet jobs, I'd sure appreciate if you'd pass them along. Thanks!

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