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In article <1990Jul27....@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> dav...@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Palmer Davis) writes:


   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.
   >

   Before I transferred out of Georgetown, I used to work as repair technician/
   customer support guy at a systems integration house in Rosslyn.  One morning,
   a customer called demanding to know why his brand new 3.5" floppy drive 
   wouldn't work with any of his files.  After about half an hour of talking
   him through "drive not ready" messages, I asked him whether the metal slide
   on the disk he was using might be jammed.  "What metal slide?" he replied.
   It turns out that he and his assistant had spent the previous afternoon
   cutting their old disks down from 5.25" to 3.5" so that they would fit in
   their snazzy new drive with four times the storage!

   -- Palmer Davis --

   (But no, nobody ever asked me where the "any" key was....)


Yeah, along similar lines, I used to work at Magnetic Scrolls (UK
adventure games house) and we provided Amiga's for the artists to use
along with some s/w. We wrote some instructions for them about how to
get started along the lines of:

1. insert disk into drive

2. ...

We got a call from them "My computers not working, etc...", someone
went round to sort the problem out. Lo and behold, they didn't realise
you had to take out the disk that was already in the drive. They had
forced a second disk in there. Ho hum...

Steve.
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