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In article <4vvdb4$6...@lex.zippo.com>,
Helge Moulding <h...@slc.unisys.com> wrote:
>Andrew Grygus wrote,
>>Actually, this whole thing was probably started by a help desk guy 
>
>I agree.
>

I dunno, I work in tech support.. about two years ago I walked into our little reception area 
held out a floppy and said, "I'd like the internet on my disk, please." .. seemed really 
funny at the time - now I hear people say that 3 or 4 times a day.  Sometimes users decide 
not to think, like when they're shocked that their modem has to dial before they can use 
netscape at home - or the sorry people that try to stick a floppy in the wrong way, rather 
than trying to turn it around or do anything else, they just give you a helpless look.  

>
>Consider some of the other stories.
>
>* the photocopy of the disk - why would the service center want a *copy*
>  of a disk? If the disk is defective, they have you send it in for an
>  exchange.

I can believe this.. it's a matter of mindset, if I'm a secretarial type - and I dont ever 
touch a computer, the term copy means 'xerox' .. people do absent minded stuff like that, 
the term 'copy' may have just jumped out more than the idea of what a disk is all about..

>* the refrigerator magnet - most fridge magnets aren't strong enough for
>  two pieces of paper, never mind a floppy disk. And fridge magnets aren't
>  likely to damage the floppy, either, as weak as they are.

I couldn't find any fridge magnets, and I'm not sure if a phone handset is more or less 
magnetic, but I left the handset from my fancy at&t darth vader phone on a full disk for 5 
minutes, and all the wav files I stuck on it still played ok.. I expected it to break it, 
whaddya know.. 

(anything I didn't quote I agree with..)

kevin
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A mind is like a parachute, when it's open -
                                              - it just slows you down.