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Re: Stupid Users

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From: d... Don Stokes
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 1990 02:28
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ne...@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System) writes:

> >A week later he gets a call from his father in law for whom he had 
> >installed a small business system. It seems a secretary had lost a disk 
> >in the machine. He goes to take a look and sure enough the secretary 
> >had stuck the disk into the space between the twoisk drives.
> 
> Yeah, I felt _real stupid_ the first time this happened to me... I wasnt' 
> really looking where I was putting the disk, and voila!, the disk disapeared!
> 
> One small piece of tape solved the problem.

On a similar vein, the Mac IIs we have around the place have slots for
two drives.  If only one is installed, the second slot remains covered
by a push-out plastic cover.  The cover detaches rather easily.

More than one we have had to pull disks out of the machine where folk
had worked from left to right when choosing which slot to put the floppy
in.....

Again, tape solved the problem.

Don Stokes, ZL2TNM  /  /                            Home: d...@zl2tnm.gp.govt.nz
Systems Programmer /GP/ Government Printing Office  Work:        d...@gp.govt.nz
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From: d...@zl2tnm.gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes)
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Subject: Re: Stupid Users
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Date: 30 Jul 90 02:28:06 GMT
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