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[alt.sysadmin.recovery] Re: People don't need computers to be lusers
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From: [email protected] (Bob Dowling)
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
Subject: Re: People don't need computers to be lusers
Date: 9 Jan 1997 16:46:38 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>, Rob Blake <[email protected]> writes:
|> I decided to defect to Barclay's. Reason? Simple. I walked in to ask
|> about an account and noticed the terminals they were using. Lloyd's had
|> PC's wunning win3.1. Barclay's had X-terminals. That was all the
|> persuasion I needed.
The Unix behind them is AIX, though.
My saddest ever time in a bank (Barclays as well) was when I went in for a
preliminary mortgage hearing and explained the text in an error dialogue box
to the personal ?anker.
It said something quite useful like "Printer <NAME> out of paper."
"What should I do?" asked the clerk.
"Put some paper in the printer?" I suggested.
"Oh, yes. That might work" he replied.
It did work.
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