Shortly after Win 95 was released the place I worked decided we would install a bunch of new PC's. Our oldest librarian was not comfortable with Windows but was happy in DOS (go figure) any way the Chief engineer found out about the ability to put short audio clips onto certain mouse clicks. He and the head of the laboratory manager waited until the librarian's were all away for the day and added a bunch of voice clips with the engineering saying things like "ouch don't do that", "hey that was fun", and a couple of others. Then waited for the fun to begin. Next day the head librarian was using the machine with the 'modified' mouse. She thought some thing was wrong but really could not say what. The older librarian flipped out and told the engineer to stop haunting her machine. This was after running to his office about 10 times to make sure he was not hiding in the library and saying things into a mic. She was totally convinced that the engineer had put an evil spell on her machine and insisted we burn it in a fire to get rid of it. She was not happy about the modifications made when the entire office heard her screaming at the lab manager about helping the engineer in putting the "spell" on her machine, they all had to have their machines cursed as well. That got stopped when the Executive Director came in one morning and heard the receptionist machine say "good morning (something)". The lab manager and I got called in and told to "fix" all the machines to play nice and no more talking computers in his facility.
Jon On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Guyer, Don <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > Windows Systems Engineer > RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 > Enterprise Technology Group > Fiserv > [email protected] > Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 > Fax: 610-233-0404 > www.fiserv.com > > -----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 > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
