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From: mjl@ritcv.UUCP (Mike Lutz)
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Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
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Date: Sun, 16-Mar-86 14:25:26 EST
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Heard this one from a computer salesperson about 17 years ago:

Seems this firm had just purchased a new high-speed printer;
after it's installation, they noticed random form feeds in the
middle of reports that had printed perfectly in the past.
Multiple trips by CE's, replaced electro-mechanical parts, etc.,
but no solution.  Finally the manufacturer sent out an engineer
to try to figure out what was going wrong.

WELL -- it seems that this printer's paper stacker was on *top* of
the printer rather than behind it: just over the front panel with
all the standard control buttons.  It so happened that one of the
women operators was well-endowed, and when she went to retrieve
listings, well, a certain button got pushed and Voila! Blank
pages in the next report!
-- 
Mike Lutz	Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY
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