At 19:52 26/05/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Pete Turnbull wrote:
On May 26, 13:07, Fred Cisin wrote:
At the other end of the age scale... My pal Fran
wondered where a few
of his CDs had gone to, until he opened his PC to change a card, and
found a stack of them. His four-year old son had sometimes "missed"
the CD-ROM drive slot, and inserted the CDs in the gap between the
CD-ROM and the floppy.
I've seen that in 6 or 7 different machines, all from day-care and
kindergarten facilities.
"Me too"
Also (more on topic) 5 1/4" floppies going the same way..
I remember (few years back) buying a new cd-rom drive from a local bucket
shop for a PC we were building. Plumbed it into the machine, powered up,
pressed Eject, and in the tray already was a genuine Windows 95 CD-Rom,
with serial number written on it in a pen (and the words "shop
copy"). Hmm... "New" ?
Most dangerous object I found: Doing a cabling job some years back in some
offices in Liverpool, stood on the top of a step-ladder, pushed up a tile
in the false-ceilings whereupon it tilted abruptly and a large, heavy,
hammer shot past my eyes and hit the floor with a loud thud..
That was a slightly more lucky escape than the time I was working elsewhere
on a Cat5 wall socket when the customer's MD decided to "help" me by
putting the ceiling tiles back. Unfortunately, they were large heavy
asbestos-type tiles, and the one he decided to put back was directly above
my head: It broke as he lifted it up. That cost me a trip to casualty and
two stitches..
Rob.