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Re: Floppy disks

#519
From: j... Jae-Hoon Lee
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 00:54
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In article <Dec.7.23.49....@topaz.rutgers.edu> msm...@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes:
>It turned out he or she had tried to insert a 5.25 disk into
>the Mac's 3.5 drive, BY FOLDING IT IN HALF.  

I also heard about the same story from a friend of mine.
A user approached to him and asked why the PC cannot read his 5.25 disk.
When he was asked to pass the disk to my friend, he pulled out a disk from
his pocket which was folded twice (half and again half).

Another time, there was girl using Macintosh.  When she was done typing
her essay, she asked the consultant how she can print it out to a printer
connected to another Mac on the next table. (For some reason she liked the 
other printer on the next table then the one connected to her Mac.)
The consultant took the printer cable apart from her Mac and told her to 
aim it to the printer on the next table and hit "return".
As soon as she hit return, he turned his head form the end of the cable (she
is holding) to the printer on the next table (pretending he is following 
the transmission) and cried out "Darn, you missed it.  Try again!".  
She had to repeat a few more times before she figured out what she was doing.

Jae

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From: j...@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Jae-Hoon Lee)
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Subject: Re: Floppy disks
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Date: 22 Dec 89 00:54:29 GMT
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