Dead end tools and technologies you wished you hadn't bothered with

[Doggy Styles]

(Borland C++ development kit) As found on the CD on the front of PC Plus in 1998?

No. I actually bought it, a few years before 1998. God knows why. I think it came in a nice box though.

[TimberWolf]

Yeah, just about any technology more than a couple of years old.

[expat]

Yeah, just about any technology more than a couple of years old.

This is the downside (one of them!) of working in IT: after you've been in it a while, most of your experience is totally worthless.

[BrilloPad]

This is the downside (one of them!) of working in IT: after you've been in it a while, most of your experience is totally worthless.

My experience of tolerating numpty users/permies never seems to go to waste.

[bogeyman]

I wasted a few hundred quid on the Borland C++ development kit and never used it.

I wasted a few hundred quid on the PSION Organiser developer kit about 12 years ago. The whole thing was a piece of shyte.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Also, I've been at many clients over the years but hardly ever needed to use Unix. But I suppose that just makes me a lightweight contractor.

No its doesnt - Ive used Unix as well - in fact IBMs AIX flavour - if youve worked with one OS youve worked with them all - Unix reminds me of the command style OS interface of the IBM 370 days - so big deal.

I think there are still one or two on here using such antiquated systems .

[AlfredJPruffock]

This is the downside (one of them!) of working in IT: after you've been in it a while, most of your experience is totally worthless.

That is why IT is not exactly a 'profession' - contrast this with a lawyer where your expenence enhances your career - I have already seen a couple of technolgy waves come and go and a lot of people 'beached' by those industry changes.

[TimberWolf]

That is why IT is not exactly a 'profession' - contrast this with a lawyer where your expenence enhances your career - I have already seen a couple of technolgy waves come and go and a lot of people 'beached' by those industry changes.

"Beached" is one up from "benched"?

[AlfredJPruffock]

"Beached" is one up from "benched"?

Yep.

Or less poetically - on the technologcal scrap-heap.

[Sysman]

I wasted a few hundred quid on the PSION Organiser developer kit about 12 years ago. The whole thing was a piece of shyte.

I don't remember it being so pricey, but Ditto.