Asda EPOS keyboards
I used to work at IBM, many many years ago, doing tech support for their EPOS equipment as used by Boots, Asda, and many other companies.

One day a couple of years ago (and several years after I'd left IBM) I was in Asda (the big one in Govan, where I did most of my practical training on the damn things). One of the till managers was struggling with a phone, a keyboard and her glasses on the out-of-service checkout beside the one I was waiting in the queue for.
"Do you need a hand with that?"
"Oh, um, yes, can you read that number on the bottom?"
"92F6330"
"You weren't even looking at it!"
"No, I thought I'd repressed that particular memory, but it's still stuck... I used to work there"
"Oh, um, John on the phone here said to ask if that's Gordon?"

And I still know how to use the serrated edge of a £1 coin to resharpen the receipt printer cutter blade, and the exact sequence of little gears and pingfuckits to remove to change them when they are too far gone.
(gordonjcp, Sun 3 Jul 2011, 9:27, 6 replies)

Is 'pingfuckit' the technical term?
If not, it should be.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Sun 3 Jul 2011, 11:08, closed)

^ this ^

( MrSanity has maybe kicked the WoW habit forever, Sun 3 Jul 2011, 15:24, closed)

^ I concur ^

(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Sun 3 Jul 2011, 16:29, closed)

I take it the clips have a tendency to fly off and go missing?
PING!
"Fuck it!"
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Sun 3 Jul 2011, 18:59, closed)

Those little E-shaped circlips...
... which will spring up, bounce off your eyebrow, off the inside of your safety glasses, and then into your eye.
(gordonjcp, Sun 3 Jul 2011, 22:40, closed)

Did you author the redbook?
(Wildchild, Sun 3 Jul 2011, 20:05, closed)