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  1. Anyway, I did what any underpaid college dropout would do:
    • ask #IT for a few extra PCs on the LAN
    • distribute the #cellular tower data across #Microsoft #Excel workbooks, one per machine
    • write some glue macros to exchange data (probably using Network #DDE or #OLEAutomation)
    • babysit the PCs as they inevitably crashed every few hours due to #Windows' flaky cooperative multitasking and its #NetBIOS Frames (then called #NetBEUI) networking protocol (6/6)

  2. Anyway, I did what any underpaid college dropout would do:
    • ask #IT for a few extra PCs on the LAN
    • distribute the #cellular tower data across #Microsoft #Excel workbooks, one per machine
    • write some glue macros to exchange data (probably using Network #DDE or #OLEAutomation)
    • babysit the PCs as they inevitably crashed every few hours due to #Windows' flaky cooperative multitasking and its #NetBIOS Frames (then called #NetBEUI) networking protocol (6/6)

  3. Anyway, I did what any underpaid college dropout would do:
    • ask #IT for a few extra PCs on the LAN
    • distribute the #cellular tower data across #Microsoft #Excel workbooks, one per machine
    • write some glue macros to exchange data (probably using Network #DDE or #OLEAutomation)
    • babysit the PCs as they inevitably crashed every few hours due to #Windows' flaky cooperative multitasking and its #NetBIOS Frames (then called #NetBEUI) networking protocol (6/6)

  4. Anyway, I did what any underpaid college dropout would do:
    • ask #IT for a few extra PCs on the LAN
    • distribute the #cellular tower data across #Microsoft #Excel workbooks, one per machine
    • write some glue macros to exchange data (probably using Network #DDE or #OLEAutomation)
    • babysit the PCs as they inevitably crashed every few hours due to #Windows' flaky cooperative multitasking and its #NetBIOS Frames (then called #NetBEUI) networking protocol (6/6)

  5. Anyway, I did what any underpaid college dropout would do:
    • ask #IT for a few extra PCs on the LAN
    • distribute the #cellular tower data across #Microsoft #Excel workbooks, one per machine
    • write some glue macros to exchange data (probably using Network #DDE or #OLEAutomation)
    • babysit the PCs as they inevitably crashed every few hours due to #Windows' flaky cooperative multitasking and its #NetBIOS Frames (then called #NetBEUI) networking protocol (6/6)