On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Bill Campbell centos@celestial.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:35 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Bill Campbell centos@celestial.com wrote:
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Wait, I have a Pascal Microengine in the garage that I never did get to boot! You know, the ones that ran on the 8" floppies, like the old Teraks we used at UCSD?
8" floppies. Now that does bring back a memory for me. I was working on a project in Texas. The customer was in Kentucky as I recall. I fixed a problem and gave an 8" floppy to our Shipping department, to send to the customer. The customer called me on the phone, to inform me that the floppy had been bent, so it would fit into the box. As I recall, it did work, after he straightened it out. For the rest of the time that I worked there, I packed things myself, before they were shipped, and that wasn't my job. I couldn't believe someone in the Shipping department was that stupid.
Never underestimate the level of stupidity/ignorance of people (after all most of the were ``educated'' in government schools :-).
When I first encountered a customer who had disk drive problems such that we replaced the 8in drives in their Radio Shack Model II several times, it wasn't until I went on-site to find that they were storing their floppies by sticking them to the file cabinet with refrigerator magnets. The amazing thing to me was that I found that this was a fairly common problem.
Then there was the person who stapled the floppy to a cover letter.
LOL. The customer in Kentucky was very good. We shipped the system to them in a moving van (and we prayed it wouldn't be involved in an accident or fire) and they installed it. I never had to go down there. He probably hasn't forgotten the bent floppy either. Attaching the floppies with magnets is also very good..... :-)