It’s the 1990s, and at a company that supplies colleges with ERP software, this pilot fish gets the call when a school wants a full install of the suite on an IBM DOS mainframe and wants a resource on site.

“When I arrived I was introduced around and we got started,” says fish. “It was pretty apparent that the guy at the school did not know much about IBM DOS and was learning on the go. After getting the tapes downloaded, the first job was a build of our database dictionary, so we started it going and waited.

“About 15 minuets later, the job failed. The guy I was working with got a bit uppity and was denouncing the quality of our software while I dove in, trying to figure out what the problem was.

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

…