Re: New Record Set In "PC" Absurdity

It seems to me I heard somewhere that martin wrote in article
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>"Don Kirkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> The supervisors of the complaining employee have taped over the "Master"
>> and "Slave" labels on that employee's computer and substituted something
>> else.

>> And, they have asked County contractors whether other labeling could be
>> made available.

>amazing. How are the suppliers going to erase those little punch marks on
>the drives that say MA, SL, CS?

See next item.  :-)

>These people never think things through properly before trying to change 10
>years of industry standard nomenclature (did I spell that right?)

Outside the data services department the politicians and decision makers
and department managers are pretty computer illiterate.  I speak from
experience--I spent over 20 years among them; my section got the second
IBM PC in our department of several thousand employees (5Mb HD).  :-)

>> Apparently that is all that has happened.  It's still a stupid
>> bureaucratic action, but ISTM CNN and others have overblown it a bit.
-- 
Don
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