Re: A tale of duplicates

From: Kenneth Downs <firstinit.lastname_at_lastnameplusfam.net>
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:30:02 -0400
Message-ID: <9m39kc.ql.ln_at_mercury.downsfam.net>


Marshall Spight wrote:

> "Kenneth Downs" <firstinit.lastname_at_lastnameplusfam.net> wrote in message
> news:vam8kc.q5v.ln_at_mercury.downsfam.net...

>> Laconic2 wrote:

>
>> [war stories.]

>
> My wife used to work in Operating System Suport for a major
> mini manufacturer. Sometimes she worked the phones.
>
> Once this guy called in with a problem installing a new
> rev of the O/S. Understand, this was not a desktop computer
> but a fills-a-room computer, with (normally) a dedicated
> on-site support staff, its own climate controlled room,
> etc.
>
> The O/S upgrade "didn't work." So she goes through all
> the common problems: existing version, new version,
> what applications are you running, are you putting the
> floppies in the correct orientation. (I think these were
> 5" or 8" floppies.)
>
> The guy is getting frustrated, and at some point he
> just bursts out: "And another thing. I don't know why
> you sent me ten of these floppy things. I couldn't fit
> more that five of them in."
>
> He had tried to insert *all* of the floppies in the drive
> at once, and wedged in five of them. Ultimately the
> field service guy determined the floppy drive had
> been destroyed in the process.
>
>
> Marshall

Wow, that's up there with the CDROM as cupholder.

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Kenneth Downs
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Received on Sat Oct 09 2004 - 18:30:02 CEST

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