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From: kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth)
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Subject: Re: computer follies
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Date: 31 Aug 88 15:20:13 GMT
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> Like the secretary(*) who tried to correct typing mistakes on her word
> processor using liquid paper.

OK guys, you think this is apocryphal?  I've seen it happen.  I was
trying to get my thesis (in Computer Science) printed out in the arcane
format acceptable to the University of Washington's Graduate School.
It was the day before the acceptance deadline.  All the letter quality
printers were down but one old AJ printer-terminal.  When I went to use
this device, I discovered another (CSci) grad student in the closet
containing the AJ, manually correcting his thesis by putting white-out
over the incorrect words and retyping the characters with the printer
in local mode.  He had typed the original on the computer, but did not
understand you could print a whole new copy.  He spent three hours in
there after I discovered him, so don't believe he was just making a few
quick changes.

To be fair, he was from Mainland China, where the undergrad Computer
Science curriculum featured a total of 40 hours experience with any
kind of computer.