Subj : Re: Thin client PC to run MS-DOS
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Nov 27 2025 10:01 am

-=> Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Ni> One time, years ago, there was someone who asked me, "You're a software
Ni> engineer?  Do you know how to create letter head in Microsoft Word?"
Ni> Being a software engineer doesn't mean I know how to do such-and-such
Ni> in any given program..

Working in IT in small companies, people tried to get me to fix lots of
things that weren't IT related by adding the word "server" to it.

Once I was asked to reboot the coffee "server". In all fairness, it was
a Rube Goldberg-esque machine with an internal conveyor belt made of
filter paper. a contraption pressed coffee down onto the filter and
passed hot water through it. The conveyor moved onto a fresh piece of
filter, and the coffee contraption dumped the puck into a trash bin. All
this happened through little peepholes in the case, with the interior
lit up. It looked like an erector set on the inside.

I've been trying to find them again, to no avail.





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