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From: paul@athertn.Atherton.COM (Paul Sander)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re:  Looking for Computer Folklore
Summary: VOLUME IS DELETED
Message-ID: <311@athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 2 Mar 89 05:00:28 GMT
References: <864@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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One of my clients in a previous job used to write office software for a
one of his previous jobs.  When he left, he renamed the hard disk volume
on the office PClone to "DELETED."  Imagine the horror the next morning
when people turned on the machine to find the message "VOLUME IS DELETED."

The same guy wrote some sort of cross-reference program for their
inventory (they made a living renting 35mm slides to advertising agencies,
and their inventory was rather large).  The boss saw the program running
and didn't like it.  It seems it ran so fast that he couldn't believe it
was working right.  So my friend added delay loops and a bunch of BS with
the flavor of "retrieving blotz" and printed its results after a few
minutes of wasted time.

Then the boss bought a faster machine because this program ran too slow...

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