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Casual IT team learns that building bespoke PCs can be a false economy
ON CALL 你好 Nǐ hǎo, dear reader, and welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your stories of translating technical trauma while delivering transcendent tech support.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Jackson" whotold us about his time providing tech support in a university's biologydepartment.
"It was sometime in the mid-2000s and our IT group at thetime consisted of myself, my boss, and a part-timer," he told On Call. "We werea very casual IT group; nothing in the way of any formal policies or standardsfor anything at all. If someone needed a new PC, we just ordered parts andassembled them ourselves."
The department's PC fleet therefore had a diverse gene pool,with no two machines possessing the same bill of materials.
"This was fine by me – I...
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