Back in the crazed few years prior to W2k, my (then) boss and I were
replacing/upgrading comps at a small biz.

After I had setup the machine at this "older" gentleman's desk, he sat
down, pointed to the mouse and said "I've never used one of those
before".

I turned, looked at my boss and he must've seen the (already building)
frustration on my face and said "why don't I show you how to use it".

He knew me too well...


Don Guyer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 11:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Still have one 70+-year-old accountant at a client who is running
Windows 95 so he can run
> Quattro Pro for DOS for his custom reports.

  Circa 2003, I briefly had a customer -- a small metal shop --
running a DOS-based accounting system of mysterious origin.  It only
recognized drives A: and B: so they had to use SUBST to get it to
store it's data on the hard drive, and it wasn't Y2K compliant so they
had their PC clock set to 1993.

-- Ben

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