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As someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.

Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.

Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...

(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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Thats an urban myth isnt it?
ooh first. I work in tech support. i shall fill this page within the hour.

Chthonic edit: absolutely not. This really did happen - I had to tape over the hole.
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 14:15, Reply)

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