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I wrote an internal time and billing application in Dbase for use on a CP/M
machine. After showing my secretary how the program worked, she insisted
that written instructions were not necessary. I wrote an trap but that
caused the screen to flash the bell to ring, (we did not have sound cards in
those days,) and a message box that said "You are @^&?*# clumsy. If you hit
a wrong key again this machine will explode." More bell ringing and the
screen cleared. It took me several days until my secretary would touch the
billing program. I guess I paid the price for my own humor.
Peter
> Seeing as it's Friday:
>
> A long time ago, in an office full of Macs (with the sounds
> turned off) we tricked a coworker.
> He was an elderly gentleman with little computer knowledge,
> his name was Dave. Do you see where this is going? :) One
> evening we turned on only the error noise on his computer and
> loaded HAL "Dave, I can't let you do that Dave.".
> Took an entire week for him to finally invoke the error
> noise. After a brief exclamation, we found him in front of
> his computer stunned, silent, and somewhat worried. "How, the
> **** does the computer know my name?"
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