Are office people really that, umm shall we say...slow?

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman_at_kih.net>
Date: Mon Aug 27 22:49:53 2001

Just like when we had CGA and MDA monitors with DB9 female and token ring
was big and also had DB9 female, and many TR cards hadn't gotten the grren
dots yet (like it mattered when they did as many people though the green dot
stood for the green monitor).

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Matt Wilda
-> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 9:30 PM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: Re: Are office people really that, umm shall we say...slow?
->
->
-> >
-> > The most amusing (after the event) version of that was the idiot who
-> > connected the BNC on the back of a VT220 to a thinwire
-> ethernet network.
-> > No, it didn't do any lasting damage, but needless to say the
-> network went
-> > down...
-> >
->
-> Last year the University of North Carolina began giving IBM
-> Thinkpads to all of its
-> students. Over half of them had to be sent back for repairs
-> after students confused
-> the ethernet port with the modem and attempted to connect them
-> to a phone line.
->
->
Received on Mon Aug 27 2001 - 22:49:53 BST