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Funny Stories ›› Funny computer stories ›› funny computer stories 077 We did promise to send in Datapoint service. "Yeah, we’ve got a customer and their disk drive is bleeding ... yes, that’s what they said, bleeding." The Datapoint guys didn't believe us any more than we believed the customer, but they promised to do a service call. About a half hour later the Datapoint service rep called us. "Well, it’s bleeding all right. Probably a cup, maybe two cups of blood running down the side of the drive." We think that because it was a cold, chilly day a small family of mice had decided to sleep in the nice warm disk drive. When the customer turned on the computer, the spinning metal disk sliced a couple of the mice in half, resulting in lots of blood. The disk drive was truly bleeding. Another funny part of the story is that Datapoint decided that since mice are not part of the approved environment, it was not covered under the repair warranty. I think the repair bill was about $20,000. |