On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote: >>On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:35 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com> wrote: <snip> >>> 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..... :-)