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From: robert@jive.sybase.com (Robert Garvey)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Summary: neophyte user trashes floppies
Keywords: floppy labels
Message-ID: <2887@sybase.sybase.com>
Date: 4 Feb 89 21:21:51 GMT
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Organization: Sybase, Inc.
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  Heard a story about a company whose PC software was being blamed for
  the consistent failure to read backup data off floppies.  Unable to
  determine the cause, they finally sent someone to sit beside the
  system's user the entire work day.  Nothing unusual was seen until
  the very end of the business day when the user took the floppy out of
  the drive and started to label it.  A blank label was put on and the
  disk inserted into the carriage of an electric typewriter...

The humor of the anecdote overrides any concerns for veracity.
--
Robert Garvey                                       Sybase, Inc
robert%sybase.com@sun.com                           6475 Christie Ave
{pyramid,pacbell,sun,lll-tis,capmkt}!sybase!robert  Emeryville, CA 94608