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Funny Stories ›› Funny computer stories ›› funny computer stories 070 The first call an IBM Customer Engineer got after coming back from IBM school was from a customer that had a card reader problem. This particular card reader ejected the cards lengthwise from a slot into a bin. The card came up, hit a rubber bumper, and dropped back into the bin. His job was to install a new rubber bumper. The engineer showed up in a brand new suit with a brand new tool bag and headed into the computer room. He was talking to the computer operator while looking for the reader. He had been trained on a different reader and had never seen this particular model before. Then he made the mistake of asking the operator what was wrong with the card reader. The operator went over, grabbed a big deck of blank cards, loaded them into the reader and pressed start. The operator then tried to keep a straight face as the IBMer watched. One after another, the cards came flying out, making a graceful arch across the computer room and landing in a pile about 8 feet away. |