How I became the IT boss by accident

14th Nov 2006, 22:21 GMT

Back in the mid-’80s, I was the No. 2 guy in a small tech-support and implementation group, working out of the headquarters of a company with offices spread across the country. Mainframes still ruled back then, and microcomputers were snotty upstarts that “real” computer users sneered at. I found the little buggers fascinating -- and I really liked DOS. Those batch files were so cool...