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From: shane@chianti.cc.umich.edu (Shane Looker)
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Subject: Re: computer follies
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Date: 8 Sep 88 15:16:10 GMT
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In article <6308@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ruffwork@CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff) writes:
>do to this disk?"  "I left it in my pocket and it went through
>the washer and drier..."  oh, just use your backup.  It was in
>the other pocket...
>
>--ritchey ruff	ruffwork@cs.orst.edu


Good Grief!  We had the same problem!  The story (as reported by a friend who
was there) goes like:
 
   User comes in.  Says that his roommate is a neatness freak and washed his
clothes with the floppy in the pocket.  Can the consultants get it back?
   Consultant says sure.  Shoves the disk into external drive.  Disk makes
very strange grinding sound.  They remove the disk from the the drive and 
open the disk shutter.  Inside is a piece of Bounce.


Second Story:  (We have many of them.)
   (This and the next story are from another friend who was consulting when
    they occured.)

   [As some background, we have station assignment cards which are about the
    same width as a floppy but at least an inch longer.]

   User comes in and says that he put his disk into the Mac but it isn't  
   working.  My friend goes out and checks.  The user has managed to force
   the station card all the way into the disk drive!  The card is deeper than
   the drive can take...
 
Third Story:
   Same friend as above, different site.
 
   A user had a bottle of something like Liquid Paper on the top of the Mac.
   The bottle had fallen off the Mac and poured onto the disk.  The user
   put the disk back into the machine (my friend things he wanted to get the
   data off before ti got ruined) where it stuck.  My friend removed the disk
   using a paper clip and opened the shutter.  The whole disk was covered with
   white liquid paper...


We've probably got a couple hundred funny things in one of our conferences
here.  More at another time.

Shane Looker
Looker@um.cc.umich.edu