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Comics: The Real Story Behind BYOD

From someone who did IT support back in the mid 1980s, it is amusing to hear that bringing your own device has been elevated to a “trend.” Back in the days of DOS, we all had to contend with end users bringing in their own gear. Of course, the gear cost five large and didn’t connect to the corporate network (there wasn’t any back then other than for the mainframes).

Speaking of amusing, here is a slightly different take on the BYOD trend. What has been your most oddball device that your user population has asked you to support? (click to enlarge)

CA Technologies’ CHIEF & CHUCK is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work here at CA.

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