Rumor has it that Russ Blakeman may have mentioned these words:
>The locals here in Ky call the 3.5" floppies "hard disks" too - I guess
>because the hard outer casing. It's difficult to explain to them that it's
>still a floppy disk as the revolving disk inside of that case is flexible -
>or "floppy" and that a hard drive gets it's name from having hard platters
>inside of it. Of course I may be biased having grown up in Chicago with
>schools that teach you that "I ain't got no ideal" or "might could" are
>improper uses of English and that the earth was found to be round :-)
It's not hard at all -- Where I used to work our secretary kept calling
3.5" floppies "hard disks" and wouldn't change her language at my copious
requests & sincere attempts at re-education...
So one day, I took apart a dead 3.5" floppy disk to extract the floppy
media within, & one of the platters from my first hard drive ever (an old
5.25" RLL 66Megger - so this is almost on-topic... ;-) put them easily
accessible in my briefcase & went to work. I stopped by her desk, popped
open my briefcase, pulled out the floppy media & threw it at her. It (of
course) flopped all over the place, and I said "that's out of one of these
*floppy* disks - that's why we call them "floppies."
I then took out the hard drive disk & threw it in her general direction
(but missing her by a few feet) and bounced it off of her desk with a
*very* loud bang! She said "Holy Shit! What the hell was that?!?" I said
"that came out of an old hard drive -- *that's why we call them hard
drives*!!"
She *never* made that mistake ever again... :-) Education is *such* a
wonderful thing!!!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
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disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Received on Mon Aug 27 2001 - 11:55:55 BST