Re: things in diskdrive

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From: 660... Kevin Phillips
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 23:08

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In article <1990Sep6.1...@ctr.columbia.edu> mo...@ctr.columbia.edu (Robert Mokry) writes:

>In article <1990Sep6.0...@ida.liu.se> g...@ida.liu.se (Goran Sedvall) writes:
>>I hope this i right group for this story.
>>I work at the department of computer and information science
>>in Linkoping in Sweden as a service engineer. A customer 
>>gave me a macIntosh + and complained that the disk has stuck
>>in the diskdrive. No problem, I answered. When I examine the
>>computer, I found a;
>>CREDIT CARD!!!

>I once heard that a customer brought in a computer, and it had a gerbil
>stuck in the disk drive.  ;-)

That's not all.  I heard that after inspecting it for a few minutes,
the technician noticed the computer was moving and suddenly hundreds
of baby gerbils exploded from the computer.  One of the baby gerbils
had a note attached to it, asking people to send postcards for a
sick boy named Craig.  :-)

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