Manual? What manual?

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Mar 4, 20083 mins

We have all had our own personal "learning experiences." I experienced one back in 1991 when I was the second-shift computer operator responsible for backing up our Novell servers, including payroll. My job was to run the backups and any other little jobs that I could do, such as run reports, change printer ribbons, and the like. It was a great job for a college student learning about computers and IT. I'd been

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