POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Paraniod : Re: Paraniod Server Time
7 Sep 2024 07:24:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Paraniod  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 3 Jul 2008 13:55:51
Message: <486d12a7$1@news.povray.org>
Gilles Tran wrote:

> Once I had a secretary who never used the HD at all because she had been 
> told that hard discs were not reliable.

Oh, the irony!

HDs were once of questionably reliability, but floppies are so 
hopelessly unreliable it's not even worth thinking about!

> Everything she wrote was stored in a single Word file kept on a single 
> floppy. Every letter was a new page.

Wow.

That's really special.

I mean, forget for a moment the fact that editing a Word document stored 
on a floppy is 97% guaranteed to result in file corruption... A new 
document for each page?

I'm... stunned.

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