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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Message-ID: <1434@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 8 Sep 88 20:06:31 GMT
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In article <1123@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>, hiebeler@pawl19.pawl.rpi.edu (David Hiebeler) writes:
> "I kind of dropped the disk while I was crossing a stream, and
> it floated away before I could grab it."

>    How many people has _this_ happened to?  :-)

Well, at a previous job one of the guys slipped and fell coming up the front
steps while crrying an armful of disk boxes, and dropped about 20 disks in
the rain. We opened them up and dried them out and sealed them up again, and
were actually able to read most of them.
-- 
Peter da Silva  `-_-'  Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
"Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?"            peter@ficc.uu.net