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From: crscott@sdrc.UUCP (Scott Klosterman)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: Computer Folklore
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Date: 6 Apr 88 22:59:32 GMT
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As a consultant for a PC based network at the University of Cincinnati
I had the opportunity to witness and hear of some astounding feats of 
ignorance from novice users
   
A certain user, having been informed by his teacher that he needed to
insert his disk before starting, removed it from it's plastic shrink
wrap and inserted it jacket and all into the disk drive, for some
unknown reason he was still unable to save his work.

An unnamed client called in to inform their consultant (who also did
outside work) that the instructions he had left for booting up the
computer were incorrect, in fact she had followed the instructions more
than ten times, each time inserting another diskette in the drive, and
nothing happened When the consultant informed her that in no way would
ten diskettes fit in the drive she responded "Well it took all of
them".  Upon arriving at the clients house he found that the diskettes
we being inserted through a miniscule crack between the floppy drives
and were littering the inside of the chassis.

Quote of the week: 
	 "Oh, I don't need a computer, I'm here to do word processing" 

Scott Klosterman

story credits to the fine folks at the UCCC Microcomputer Lab