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Bill wrote:
>I once worked with someone (an engineer of manager level, not title) who
was
>rather put off by my comment to a co-worker at lunch that my low-speed
>Celeron was just too underpowered for what I did. He asked me (not that he
>was included in the conversation, but he always felt it necessary to give
>his 2¢ anyway) "Why would you need a fast machine? You're a tech writer!
You
>don't need a powerful machine to run Word." I then explained to him what I
>did there. The following Monday I received a development-grade Pentium III.
>:)
Kathleen replies:
Quite honestly, that's why I kept the title "Information Developer". No one
here has a clue what that is; but they understand what developers do. It
gets me access to all the development drives and database privileges I need
to do my job. I received a development quality machine loaded with most of
the developers' tools on my first day. Being lumped in with all the
developers ain't such a bad thing.
I *did* learn basic programming skills to maintain the illusion, though :)
5 years ago, as a "technical writer" at one job, I went through 4 POS PCs in
6 months. Fortunately my boss' boss had his hands on the last one (a Zeos)
before it blew up (right after I asked, "Um, shouldn't you unplug it before
you do that?"). Then I got a brand new Compaq.
A landmark hotel, one of America's most beautiful cities, and
three and a half days of immersion in the state of the art:
IPCC 01, Oct. 24-27 in Santa Fe. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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