things in diskdrive

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6 total messages Started by g... Goran Sedvall Thu, 06 Sep 1990 07:26

#4392

Author: g... Goran Sedvall
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 07:26

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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 realy don't belive he got any money from the computer. Or
do anybody think he tried to read the card??
 This story is absolutly true!!
 Goran

Ps. If the customer read this, Ihope not, Nobody know your name.

Re: things in diskdrive

#4393

Author: mo... Robert Mokry
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 19:27

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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.  ;-)

Re: things in diskdrive

#4394

Author: jas... E. Jason Scheck923-4519
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 21:13

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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.  ;-)
	
Was it Richard Gere?  (more :-)'s)

		
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Re: things in diskdrive

#4395

Author: 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.  :-)

Re: things in diskdrive

#4396

Author: si... Simon Gladman
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 1990 16:07

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

So what? I once found a Gerbil wielding an Amex Card with an Apple Mac'
stuck in it's arse.

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Re: things in diskdrive

#4397

Author: mo... Robert Mokry
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 1990 20:46

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

And did you know that if you put a large disk drive in the middle of a
suspension bridge (using very long cables to connect it to the
computer), you can move the heads at a particular frequency so that
first the drive rocks back and forth, and then the whole bridge starts
oscillating till it collapses.  What fun.

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