Today was my last day at Bargain Bytes. I had a bit of a different day working with an old script called "DOS". I also learned some other hardware, I had to do some research on some PCI and some PCI-e cards.
I started the day with Vince teaching me how to use "DOS" using a virtual machine through Windows 98. I learned and fiddled around with many different commands. At first I didn't know much on what I was doing but soon I slowly got the hang of how to get in and out of a directory using cd: and cd:.. to close the directory. I figured out how to get into the directory using dir and I looked around in there for a bit, I dove into the Help dir to see what there was if I could go any farther or not. To get out I just typed the command of (cd..).
Early today my instructor also came in to finish up on my assessment for my second practicum. We talked about what I have learned while working here and what I did for my practicum project. I also had to answer some hardware questions to prepare for my CompTIA Exam coming up soon, which I may get it postponed to study for it more.
After my lunch break I came back and fiddled a bit more in "DOS". Then Gino showed me what a Marquee is, which is basically a screensaver for older operating systems which displays any type of text that you want it to say. Vince was going to show me how to write a script using Java to make a Marquee from scratch. However "DOS" is very hard to work with, and Vince couldn't quite remember how to.
Near the end of the day, Vince gave me an old motherboard that I could take home and look at. I can analyze it more to learn more on how a motherboard works and what each part is on it. I also got a copy of DOS 4.01. Who knows what I'll do with that since Vince told me I'm gonna need a hard drive big enough to run it. And finally I got a copy of Lin's Install which is the program script that we use at Bargain Bytes to add any Anti-Virus programs onto it and we also use it to activate some of the programs and to activate Windows 7 using Windows 7 Loader EX. I am sure that my instructor may want to copy, since he did ask me about it before.
But other than that I did have a great time working there since I did learn quite a bit about computers and have improved my knowledge of software. And I really wanted to build a tower and I was finally able to, when working there. And the best part about it is that I sold it just a few mins after finishing it itself. So I felt pretty proud about that!
Thanks for taking the time to read this,
Sincerely,
Brandon.F
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