Boy, and how! Not a computer issue, but I remember the first winter my wife and I had in our first apartment. We woke up suddenly in the middle of the night smelling something burning, and ran frantically around the apartment looking for the fire.
I no longer panic at that smell at the onset of winter; dust builds up during the warm months and gives that smell you're talking about when the furnace first comes on during cold weather. But it sure got my adrenaline going that first time. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* The main thing we learn from a serious attempt to practise the Christian virtues is that we fail. If there was any idea that God had set us a sort of exam and that we might get good marks by deserving them, that has to be wiped out. If there was any idea of a sort of bargain -- any idea that we could perform our side of the contract and thus put God in our debts so that it was up to Him, in mere justice, to perform his side -- that has to be wiped out. -C S Lewis, "Christian Behavior" */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 20:20 Actually, if just a burning smell, might be a lot of dust inside the computer. --- On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 7:15 PM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > Technician: Hello. How can I help you today? > > Customer: There's smoke coming from the power supply on my computer. > > Technician: Looks like you need a new power supply. > > Customer: No, I don't! I just need to change the startup files. > > Technician: Sir, what you described is a faulty power supply. You need to > replace it. > > Customer: No way! Someone told me that I just had to change the system > startup files to fix the problem! All I need is for you to tell me the right > command. > > For the next ten minutes, in spite of the technician's efforts to explain the > problem and its solution, the customer adamantly insisted that he was right. > So, in frustration, the technician responded: > > Technician: I'm sorry. We don't normally tell our customers this, but > there's an undocumented DOS command that will fix the problem. > > Customer: I knew it! > > Technician: Just add the line "LOAD NOSMOKE.COM" at the end of the > CONFIG.SYS file and everything should work fine. Let me know how it goes. > > About ten minutes later, the technician received a call back from the > customer: > > Customer: It didn't work. The power supply is still smoking. > > Technician: Well, what version of DOS are you using? > > Customer: MS-DOS 6.22... > > Technician: Well, that's your problem. That version of DOS doesn't include > NOSMOKE. You'll need to contact Microsoft and ask them for a patch. Let me > know how it all works out. > > When nearly an hour had passed, the phone rang again: > > Customer: I need a new power supply. > > Technician: How did you come to that conclusion? > > Customer: Well, I called Microsoft and told the technician what you said, > and he started asking me questions about the make of the power supply. > > Technician: What did he tell you? > > Customer: He said my power supply isn't compatible with NOSMOKE. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
