Xref: utzoo rec.humor:18489 rec.humor.d:1542 comp.misc:4906 Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!gatech!mcdchg!ddsw1!peggy From: peggy@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Peggy Shambo) Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore Message-ID: <2859@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 4 Feb 89 14:34:34 GMT References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> <532@geovision.UUCP> <768@ur-cc.UUCP> <1356@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> Reply-To: peggy@ddsw1.UUCP (Peggy Shambo) Followup-To: rec.humor Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM, Mundelein, IL Lines: 25 Yet another true story: I was at GE Consulting's Training and Education Center in Albany, NY taking a course on the PC. Well, there were some inexperienced PC users there, so we had to go through the "basics" for them (ie, the do's and don't's of disk handling) Well, according to the instructor, there had been one student who had driven up from Bridgeport, CT (corporate offices are there). He had stayed at a nearby motel overnight, leaving his briefcase in the trunk of the car. (Oh, let me add that it was sub-zero weather at the time of this incident). In the morning he arrived at T&E, opened up his briefcase, took out a floppy disk, inserted into a drive... then *c-r-a-c-k*!!! It shattered into little pieces. Gee.. I hope it wasn't critical information on it, with no backup :-) -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Peg Shambo | Sophisticated Lady, I know. | Ellington/ peggy@ddsw1.mcs.com | You miss the Love you had long ago | Mills/Parish | And when nobody is nigh, you cry. |