It 1998, and there are still plenty of old PCs in use at the newspaper company where this new-to-IT pilot fish works.Back then, humorous emails about clueless users and IT woes were still pretty new,& says fish.
&I read one claiming a user had put a CD-ROM in a floppy-disk drive.
I discounted it as a silly claim.
I couldn''t believe you could actually do it.But barely three weeks later, fish walks into the shop and is greeted by a co-worker who says, &Hey, guess what you can put in a 5-1/4-inch drive?I look at the computer he working on and, sure enough, he using pliers to try to extract a CD-ROM from a floppy drive.Sharky not surprised at anything anyone puts anywhere.So put your true tale of IT life in my inbox at sharky@computerworld.com.
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