I had a similar experience, except the person I picked up the disks from was
the most organized person in the world. She did her export, labeled, with a
pre-typed label and handed it to me. She then leaned over and opened the
disk container to give me the rest of the weeks' disks. It was very neatly
mounted on the side of the file cabinet beside her desk. I asked her how she
got it to stay up there so neatly because everything posted on the side of
her cabinet was so clean. "I got a piece of two sided tape and a flat magnet
for the back of the case and just slapped it right up there. Works pretty
nicely, don't you think?"
Yes, I do.
John
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Shore
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 11:21 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
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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