Re: Stupid Users

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From: dia... diamond
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 1990 03:52

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In article <24...@amc-gw.amc.com> jwbi...@europa.amc.com (James Birdsall) writes:

>   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.

OK, here's one that happened to someone I actually met one time.  At that
time, 8-inch diskettes were a popular distribution medium and 5.25-inchers
were just beginning to catch on.  The guy had ordered some software by mail.
(This means the post office; e-mail wasn't so widely known then either.)
The guy lived in an apartment and had a mail box typical for an apartment.
So, what happened?  You think a letter carrier can read "DO NOT FOLD"?
The amazing thing is ... the guy somehow managed to read and copy the data.

-- 
Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC     dia...@tkou02.enet.dec.com
This is me speaking.  If you want to hear the company speak, you need DECtalk.

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From: dia...@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa)
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Subject: Re: Stupid Users
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Date: 30 Jul 90 03:52:30 GMT
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