[THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
- From: Philip Walley <mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:01:29 -0500
back on topic a bit, i just came across this tidbit of info:
The MCA credential will have three paths, Infrastructure, Solutions and
Messaging. At present around 70 people have qualified for the
credential, most of who have around 25 years work of experience with
10-15 in an architect type role.
To apply to enter the program you must pay a non-refundable fee of $250.
If you aren’t accepted, you don’t get it back, although you can apply
again when you feel that you have reached the standard for acceptance.
Once accepted into the program there will be a further $10,000 fee. This
sounds steep unless you consider that you’ll be assigned a mentor who
has achieved the credential already for a six month period and that
getting a group of MCAs together for a board is not a trivial exercise.
Steve Snyder wrote:
Nothing wrong with records, although Greg was wondering how I fit them
into the CD player...
On 6/24/06, *Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com <http://ThinHelp.com>*
<jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I was blowing up resistors by plugging them into electrical
outlets long before that!
(don't try this one at home) Heck I learned electronics on radios
and TV's with Tubes in them. I remember the hum when I fired those
babies up. I used to take those giant speakers out of the radios
and hook them together and rock the house. (yeah I was a mobile
Disk Jockey for abut 10 years also). I still have all the old
records.
I started working on computers on Digital PDP11's. The drives in
those things were wack. If they went bad the springs and
mechanisms would explode out every direction. I also was manager
of a Radio Shack store when the first PC's came out. Model 1, 2,
3's, and Color Computer and finally the Tandy 1000 PC. Right in
the thick of things...I could tell some stories.
Jim
*/Nick Smith <>/* wrote:
Pah!
Just remembered that my first computer (As opposed to Mum's)
was one we built as a science project. Soldered the switches
on, had little metal copper plates running as circuits, and
small laboratory light-bulbs to give feedback to the user.
The switches were binary ones and we had two rows of four I think.
This enabled us to flick switches to 0 or 1 and then the logic
of the circuits was such that the lights lit up to show the
addition of the two rows.
I presume we could only add to 30 altogether.
So in terms of the Yorkshireman competition;
No RAM
No External Storage
No Machine code
No silicon whatsoever
And a CPU (OK bundle of badly-wired switches) that was about 2
feet by 6 inches.
Beat tha', you Southern p*nsies.
Probably 78 or 79.
Nick
*From:* David Finch [mailto: david.finch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:david.finch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]
*Sent:* 23 June 2006 12:15
*To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
OK, with my pedantic hat on, the certification is only given
"Unlike other IT certifications, this credential was built and
is granted by industry architects, as candidates must pass a
rigorous review board with previously certified architects."
So how did the FIRST architect get certified?
J
And to enter the "Four Yorkshiremen" competition
Lookshury!
My first system was a Microbee (Australian) Z80 with 32K RAM
and a cassette tape….that was about 1983 I think….It had
BASIC, but I used it to teach myself Assembler programming
The first system I actually worked on with a Hard Drive had a
5Meg Disk Platter that was nearly 2 foot across, and used
tapes for long term storage. That was in about 1986.
And my mum and dad used to dance on our graves and sing
Hallelujah!
But tell that to the kids of today and they won't believe you
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