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Helge Moulding (h...@slc.unisys.com) wrote:
[...]
: There are so many luser tales around, as this thread shows. I suspect that
: every one of them was started by help desk people. Made up of whole cloth.
: And, no, I'm not convinced by anyone who claims that it happened to them.
: So I'm calling them a liar. What do they care?
: 
: 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.

Because it wasn't a defective disk.  It was a data disk, and they were
having problems with some function of the program with that data.  We asked
for a copy of the disk, rather than the original, so they would still be
able to run everything else.  What came in the mail was a Xerox(tm) copy
of the diskette.

[...]
: * 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.

Well, this was third-party to me.  (But not FOF.)  My brother says he saw
it in his office.

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