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In article <68...@helios.TAMU.EDU> mtm...@venus.tamu.edu writes:
>A girl had just checked out a computer (PC). All of the PC's in this lab are
>equipped with one 3.5" floppy drive. She was carrying a 5.25" floppy. She 
>looked at the disk in her hand, sized it up against the slot, and (before my
>friend could react) she folded the 5.25 disk, creased it, and shoved it in.

   This has probably happened in every university in the country. For some
reason, Princeton had a lot of people who could barely cope with Mac word
processors (!). These same people did a lot of other weird things, too...

   The best story I ever heard (knowing half of the computer clinic people,
I heard a lot of stories) had to be the girl with the Mac disk that had
been run over by a truck and folded in half in the process. Undeterred, she
unfolded it, took it down to a Mac cluster, and popped it in. Of course it
didn't work, and it was so badly mangled that the Mac couldn't even eject
it. So she went and complained to somebody, and they got ahold of the guy
with the Mac cracker (this was a few years ago and the victim was a Mac
Plus). He popped the case and removed the disk. When he handed it back to
her, he said, clearly and distinctly, "DON'T PUT THIS DISK IN ANOTHER MAC."
   So she went upstairs to the clinic, said "My disk doesn't work," and 
inserted it into the nearest Mac (yet another Plus) before anybody could 
stop her. And the guy with the Mac cracker had just left...

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