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Article #3714Re: Stupid Users
From: a... Alan Clegg
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 1990 11:51
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 1990 11:51
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In article <Fw+c...@cs.psu.edu> d...@osteocyber.ortho.hmc.psu.edu (david s. channin) writes: >Friend of mine was a researcher. He had an AT at home with two >floppy drives that he installed himself. There was a tiny space >between the two drives. [..text deleted..] Another one from the consulting room: Apple designed the Mac II to be able to contain 2 3.5" drives in the front, and made their plastics accordingly. Well, if you buy a Mac II with only ONE floppy disk, the other hole leads nowhere, and has only a thin plastic 'breakaway' door covering it. After several disks were inserted into non-existant drives, tape was used to cover the 'phantom slot.' The users peeled off the tape to get at the second drive. -abc
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!samsung!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!rutgers!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!matrx!abc From: a...@Matrix.COM (Alan Clegg) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Stupid Users Message-ID: <1990Jul30.115132.9076@Matrix.COM> Date: 30 Jul 90 11:51:32 GMT References: <6889@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1990Jul27.014826.9975@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <SJL.90Jul27180057@unknown.doc.ic.ac.uk> <Fw+c3t81@cs.psu.edu> Reply-To: a...@matrix.com (Alan Clegg) Organization: Matrix Corporation, Raleigh, North Carolina Lines: 18 Posted: Mon Jul 30 12:51:32 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit