Heh. In a similar vein, in June 1996 I spent a fun-filled week onsite at a New 
York insurance company overseeing testing of a custom program written by some 
Israeli contractors.

The project used five rented PCs. I get there and start setting up: one of the 
PCs won't connect to the network. It's a 3COM card, so I call 3COM, get their 
support. They have me pull the card, then take a pencil and draw a line between 
two marked points on the card. On reinsertion, it worked!

"Great!" I said. "What did I just do?"
"Changed it from an ISA card to an EISA card."

That was pretty impressive.

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