Re: Dumb Things People Do

[ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

That reminds me of a story...

An IBM CE we worked with for years (great guy, good friend) was finishing
up a pretty major hardware migration for us and was putting some remaining
screws in on some type of panel (forget which).  He was in back of the
machine, I was in front.

He said (while still installing a screw), 'Go ahead and power it on.'

I said, 'Don't you want to finish doing that first?'

He said, 'Nah... go ahead and it the button!'

I pushed the white button in...

He said... 'WAIT!'   'I dropped a screw inside!'

I said, 'Mark, I just pushed the button in...'

He said 'Well, keep it held in until I get the screw out!'

Things turned out fine after he fished the screw out of the guts of the box
while I held the white button in.  When I finally released the button, the
box came up fine.






                                                                       
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Back in the S38 days, we had an IBM CE that came in once every month
just to make sure everything was okay. (He liked the coffee.)  It just
so happened one day he was there we had a problem and we asked him to
look at it.  One of the "lights" on the panel was lit.  I truly don't
remember why.



Since the S38 had the 8" floppy drive to the left, when he leaned over
to start taking a look, his screwdriver fell out of his shirt pocket
into the open drive bay.

We ended up with new disk drives, new cards, etc and a re-load later
that afternoon.



He never had anything in his shirt pocket every again!





Sharon





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