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CrewCab:
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh  .................. Computer Game's ................. never ever, ever allowed on my computer .............  ever  :scratch: ............. unless it was called Lemmings  ::) :bugeye: :med:


Sad I know  :beer: ........... that's why I took to alcohol  :lol:

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SPiN Racing:
Whats kinda funny about them not being used anymore...

My brother (Rip) used to be manager of a resteraunt chain in town here. And he was the manager of one store, but was handling all the inventory for the bar portion of 10 of them. The hilarious thing... He brought in the Kaypro II with the DOS daughter card out of it, so it was running on CPM. He also ran Perfect Calc on it.. and did all the inventory and payroll on it. Thing is... Nobody knew how to use the thing cause nobody knew what CPM was. Nor how to do anything with it once you turned it on. A Flashing cursor made them think it was waiting to load something..  Plus you neededd the floppys, as there were no hard disks back then. Granted the Kaypro 10 that came out later had a 10MB disk on it.. and was hideously expensive. The funniest part.... this was about 5 years ago.  :headbang:

John Hill:
A few years ago, but not so many as you might think, we returned from sailing on my friends yacht and the owner of the boatyard asked if one of us could 'look at' the office computer.  My "friend" helpfully piped up "John knows about computers!"  and I was on my way.

It was a Dos computer and the woman who operated it helpfully showed me the 'program',  they were operating a 20 man labour force caring for and repairing boats on a computer where the only 'program' was a Dos batch file which must have used every command line possible and ran to several pages! :doh:  No doubt it was a very clever piece of work and someone had spent a lot of time to get it right but now it just looped continuously.   I was careful to ask before touching anything if she had backups.  "Oh yes" she said "I do a full backup at the end of every month" and she showed me the 'backups' all nicely printed out and neatly placed in the filing cabinets!  :bugeye:

Fortunately and perhaps to everyone's astonishment especially mine I was able to fix her problem, it seemed someone had been looking at the batch listing and on about the second page they had inadvertantly inserted a line break.  It was not hard to spot and I was mightily relieved when the batch ran perfectly and I had good cause to be as by then the others were well into the  :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

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