Re: Stupid Users

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From: SL... Roger Ivie
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 1990 21:30

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In article <SJL.90Ju...@unknown.doc.ic.ac.uk>, s...@doc.ic.ac.uk (Steve J Lacey) writes:
> 
> 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...
> 

The original IBM AT had this nice little gap between the 1.2 meg and the
360K drives that was just exactly the right size to slip a diskette into,
which I did numerous times while tired and trying to hurry. ARgh.

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