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kenb...@cloud9.net (Kenneth Brody) wrote:

>Lon Stowell (lsto...@pyrtech.mis.pyramid.com) wrote:
>: In article <4vf2rs$f...@paperboy.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> m...@cs.nott.ac.uk (Mike Knell) writes:
>: >
>: >Obviously, it's possible that people could be so stupid as to use their
>: >CD drive as a cup holder, but since virtually anyone who uses a PC would
>: >have seen a CD player at some point, or at least would have the brain
>: >cells to rub together to work out that all the knobs and lights mean
>: >that it's *not* just a pop-out cup holder, I'm pretty damn sceptical.
>: 
>: 	Hmmmm.  Ever work in a help desk environment for a "wide range
>: 	of technically competent" users?   Thought not. 

>You mean like the people who are having problems with a program (back in 
>the pre-HD days) and you ask them to send in a copy of the disk, and you
>end up receiving a Xerox(tm) copy of the disk?  (Seen it first hand, not
>FOF material.)

Newbie to AFU, not sure if this is on topic (haven't read FAQ, but
plan to), however, this reminded me of something similar which I also
witnessed firsthand.

I was a student aide in my college's computer lab back in '88, long
before OCR technology and scanners were common. A student called me
over to help him. His English teacher was encouraging people to
prepare their essays on computer, so he had carefully written out his
first draft on paper and was trying to insert the piece of paper into
the floppy drive so that the computer could "read" it. He had no idea
why the computer was not displaying his essay on the screen. 

--Morgan Dhu

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They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I
didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by
that time there was no one left to speak up.
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