To keep laughing past the weekend...
 
 
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On the early days of PCs, a user called us because an application had
stopped working. She was following the instructions but nothing happened.
 
When we arrived at her desk, we noticed that a funny programmer had
displayed a key on the screen with the following message "Press any key to
continue". We watched her trying to get past this screen. She closed her
hand, pointed her index finger out and ....   touched the "key" displayed on
the screen. After all, the message read "press ANY key".
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Another one was from an HP3000 user,  whose recently replaced terminal was
not working. An old 2624B terminal was replaced by a 2932A and the logon
password stopped working. When we arrived at the desk, we noticed that the
user was entering HP2932A as the password. Immediately we figured out that
the correct password had to STILL be  HP2624B.
 
Maybe this could become a "hardware sensitive automatic password change"
feature.
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Now this one is from a visioneer. Back in early 80s, we installed an AP
system on our HP3000. A user called us asking if the computer could be aware
that what was written on his vendor supplied invoices was exactly what he
had entered on the screen.
 
He was asking for an "electronic eye" with scanning and OCR capabilites to
deliver information into data collection screens of a host based
application.
 
Although it was reason to laugh hard back then, today we can do this.
 
Cheers,
Rodolfo Lopez
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