Subj : Re: Thin client PC to run MS-DOS
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Nov 28 2025 09:38 am

 Re: Re: Thin client PC to run MS-DOS
 By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Thu Nov 27 2025 10:01 am

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

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

I don't know what "coffee server" would mean..  But that contraption sounds pretty cool.

Nightfox

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