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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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Problem with floppies
I once watched my boss at work put a floppy disk in the drive, copy the contents of it, take the disk out, put another one in and try and paste the contents of the previous disk onto it and this is a guy that runs his own computer business.
(, Tue 26 Sep 2006, 14:26, Reply)

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