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(@bob-freeman)
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@dmyhill

I have had that comic tacked to my wall for twenty years.  Back in the 1980's we thought we were special to get the "newest version".

Today I lag a ways behind.

 
Posted : 31/01/2020 2:40 pm
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@bob-freeman

I can remember having that same discussion with a COGO developer in the early 1980s about what I had found out in their DEMO disk they had sent.

His program almost ruined my AppleWriter program.

I do not believe the guy had ever learned to type.

He could not understand why I did not want to buy into his program that totally messed up how everyone that had ever taken a typing course felt when they had to learn new commands for keyboards and practically had to put a sticker on each key to know what it would do.

 
Posted : 31/01/2020 4:34 pm
 jt50
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part of your drawing file is corrupt.

?ÿ

 
Posted : 31/01/2020 5:32 pm
(@jakkanen)
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No doubt these comics come from real life experiences

25 years ago I discovered a problem in the software that my then employer's medium-sized business revolved around. It turned out to be an easy fix, a one- or two-line change in a shell script.

I was young and naive and wanted to be helpful, and I sent an email to the vendor's support address with the problem description, and my fix.

A few days later, I got a response to the effect, "Looks like you're right and that's probably a good fix. We can correct the problem in the next update if you pay $200 for filing the enhancement request, plus the engineering time billed in hourly increments".

 
Posted : 02/02/2020 11:08 am
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