When I started my career in IT, it began with programming, hardware building, terminal installation and computer cabling. Because computers were new to business, especially small businesses they usually all required the need to have their buildings or dwelling cabled for terminals or PC’s. Lets not forget Printers. Printer cable had be hand made and were specific per printer, computer and or application. There were many ways to do cabling, all of them sweaty, smelly and difficult. This is not an exaggeration when it came to wiring homes that were turned into businesses. The floors were hard wood and were built before computers and PC’s were thought of. Installing cable in homes required large drills with a long bit. The bit needed to be about about a foot and a half to cover all walls and floors in a home. I found buildings with multi-floors the easiest and the messiest. You can run the cable in a drop down ceiling but this was also messy. Opening up the ceiling enabled you to enjoy eating fiberglass, dust and any rat droppings you get lucky enough to find. But throwing a cable was very easy and you could run cabling in the floors from holes or drop them down inside a wall. Dropping a cable in the wall is called fishing. Over time you become an expert fisherman at digging cables out of the wall. Now any new building of the last twenty years comes built with conduit and usually pre-cable. For very large building projects we would sub-contract with a structured cabling contractor to have more bodies running cable, especially if it was a rush job. Those were the days of great fun. Every once in a while I dabble back at a little fishing.
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