Microsoft Tech Support set

There was an online game hosted by Microsoft a few years back where you played a member of I.T. tech support and was walking around fixing issues. The graphics are poor, ala Lesiure Suit Larry, but the game was fun and interesting. It would give you scenarios as 'Sally-can't print. How you would fix it."sometimes you would give a terminal screen, and you must enter commands and it will give you the answers. Someone remembers this and what it's called and where I can find if it still exists?

Thanks in advance.

Some sort of game historian inside Microsoft who I bet can answer this question is Ben Armstrong.  Go to his blog and send the question.  Chances are that he has not only seen, but tried in a virtual machine.  He blogged about the classic game in VPC and have for years.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/category/8225.aspx

Colin Barnhorst Windows 7 Ulimate x 64 on DIY with 6 GB of ram.

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