Henry Lewis

Information Technology Specialist
First Class Petty Officer (E-6)

Mine Warfare Training Center
U.S.S. Inchon
Ingleside, TX
 
Language and culture
Experiencing other cultures
Solving problems
Teamwork under pressure

Learning to work with computers

 

 
Academic Concepts
Jobs and Careers
Solving problems
 
One problem we ran into yesterday was [that we had] just purchased a printer, scanner, fax machine. I was trying to hook it up to our computer and every time we go into an MS-DOS based program, it wouldn't print out properly. So what we did was, first broke out the manual, read it and make sure all the peripheral devices was set up properly and once we did that, went into the diagnostic mode of the computer, made sure we had all our settings correct and the COM ports or LPT parallel ports set up properly and once we figured that out, it was just a matter of resetting the IRQs [Interrupt Service Requests] on the computer itself and we came back up.