Five years after quitting a job, developer’s former boss asked for rapid tech support
14-08-2026 08:25 via theregister.com

Five years after quitting a job, developer’s former boss asked for rapid tech support

ON CALL “I can't stand it, I know you planned it, I'm gonna set it straight, this Watergate” is the opening of the Beastie Boys classic Sabotage, a fact we mention as it will soon become pertinent to today’s edition of On Call, The Register’s weekly reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories. This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Wade” who in the mid-1980s made a crust by programming in Pick – the minicomputer OS entangle
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