Re: It only happen on a friday

Back in the early 90's I had acquired a new client (you might have heard of them - it is a large chain of spaghetti restaurants in warehouse-like buildings, based in the Dallas area) that was running their payroll with the S/36 version of J.D. Edwards software. They were having problems with payroll taxes in a couple of states, so I went out to their site to review the code on their system.

It turns out that they had been receiving regular software updates for payroll taxes that they had never applied to their system.
So, I asked the payroll clerk for the 8-inch diskette with the recent JDE software changes.

She had the diskette stuck to her file cabinet with a refrigerator magnet...

- Steve

----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Shore" <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 11:21 AM
Subject: RE: It only happen on a friday

Back in the day when PC's (!!!!!) were new (and extremely costly) the bank
i worked at shelled out quite a lot of money for numerous TRS80 behemoths.
Data was saved to 5 1/4 inch floppy's.
Our accounting director couldn't understand why most of the floppy's from
one particular person were NEVER readable. Over the phone, he would walk
her through all of the steps involved in saving the LOTUS 1-2-3 spreadsheet
data to a floppy, but invariably when he received it, nothing could be
read.
Maybe it was the transportation of the floppy through the internal mail
that was corrupting the data.
As her office was on my way into work, I was asked to stop, and pick up the
floppy.
The next morning, as I arrived at the woman's office, she was just about to
start inputting the data. Good timing on my part. I was able to watch her
every step. We even took the floppy out, put it back in so that we could
read it.
Excellent - no problems.
As I was calling the accounting director with the good news, she took the
floppy out of the PC. Stuck a blank label onto the floppy and before my
ever-widening eyes, placed the floppy into the typewriter, twisted the
carriage around and proceeded to type onto the blank label.
Before she handed it to me, she straightened out the slightly curved floppy
and said
"Here you are."



Alan Shore

NBTY, Inc
(631) 244-2000 ext. 5019
AShore@xxxxxxxx
"If you're going through Hell, keep going" - Winston Churchill



midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/20/2007 12:02:19 PM:

Reminds me of a user I once had when talking over the phone, I was

telling

him to type in CWD (old honeywell command, like cd)
He kept telling me it was an invalid command. After repeated tries I

ended

up going over to the site to find out he was typing CUUD - he was hearing
see double u dee!

Users :)


Brian

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