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From: federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <328@actisb.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 89 19:20:58 GMT
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Reply-To: federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz)
Organization: Actis in Berlin GmbH, W. Germany
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Well, there are two stories that the people here at work keep repeating
(i's hard for a week to pass by without you hearing at least one of
them), so I thought I may as well torture you.  Both stories are told as
"It actually happened to <some guy who no longer works here, the name
varies with the moon phase> with a customer (who nobody seems to
remember)".


  The said Honorable Customer X called to say that he couldn't read the
data he wrote to floppy disk. He could write his files OK, but when he
read them, he either had read errors or trash (this part of the story
also varies with the season). He tried with various diskettes, alway
with the same result.  This was told through the phone, and the Guy That
No Longer Works Here said we would probably be able to diagnose the
problem if the customer sent us a copy of the floppy. Two days later, he
received an envelope from the customer. It contained two photocopies of
the disk (one of the front and another of the back, since it was a
double-sided disk).


  The other story says that a customer wanted something fixed for a
particular hardware setup for which we had no docs. The problem shouldn't
be difficult to solve, but we needed the docs and the customer was
really in a hurry.  The person in charge of the thing asked the customer
if he would be willing to FAX us a certain part of the manuals. After a
moment's thought, he answered "OK, but only if you promise to FAX it
back!"


  I'm really sorry

-- 
		Federico Heinz     "I can resist anything but temptation"
                                        -- Oscar Wilde
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