{"id":9704,"date":"2022-02-04T09:46:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T09:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/04\/do-you-want-to-continue-to-make-that-call-y-n-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:46:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T09:46:06","slug":"do-you-want-to-continue-to-make-that-call-y-n-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/04\/do-you-want-to-continue-to-make-that-call-y-n-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you want to continue to make That Call…. Y\/N? \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Call<\/span> Friday is upon us, bringing with it the promise of the weekend and the jolly times it entails. Start the end of your week with a visit to the On Call<\/a> archives and the delight of taking a support call from users of software you wrote.<\/p>\n

We take a step back to the glory days of Windows 98, Microsoft’s follow-up to Windows 95, a penultimate hurrah for the Windows 9x family (unless one counts Windows 98 SE as its own entity) and a clear admission from the company that, yes, the web really was a thing.<\/p>\n

Our story comes from “Al” (not his name), who had written an application for Windows 98 to perform automated lab testing. It was heady stuff \u2013 an electronic part could be heated or cooled to check its resistance. Rubber might be compressed repeatedly until it failed. And all the telemetry, be it force measurement, cycle count, displacement or some other value, would be spat out to a simple .CSV file for analysis.<\/p>\n

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