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From: william@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
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Date: 31 Aug 88 16:08:00 GMT
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Nf-From: pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk!william    Aug 31 16:08:00 1988


I was working for a small company in Cambridge, UK.  The office
manager was non-technical, but was in charge of component stores
and had a good idea of the sorts of items that the company needed to
order.  We caught him out twice quite neatly by getting him to put
in orders for some 8kx8 Write only memories, and some D-ROMS.
These were caught by the person taking the orders.  Best of all
was the time when he successfully put in an order for some triple-
sided disks, and the order was taken.  The girl at the mail-order
company phoned him back later in the day and spent several minutes 
telling him where to put his 3-sided disks.

			... Bill

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