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From: jacka@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Jack C. Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <6540006@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 89 19:58:55 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Some years ago, I was in a partnership which wrote and sold a word processing
system.  Being a company of two, we traded off making installation and training
trips.  I thought I had managed to get rid of my normal techno-speak when
talking to office personnel, but after one lecture, a secretary came up and
asked to see one of the 'disk files' I had talked about.  I took her into the
machine room and pointed out a drive, at which point she looked very surprised
as said "Oh, I though you mean a round one of these" as she held up an emery
board nail file.