On, laptop!
May. 9th, 2008 03:06 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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techrecoveryThis post made me think of this story:
Long ago, I was the #2 person in a small computer support firm of 4 employees. One day, the power blinked long enough to make all of the computers we had turn off and then back on again. I said "#&@(#!", and $BOSS said "What happened?"
"The power blinked! My PC just rebooted!" (we yelled back and forth between our offices, usually.)
"Huh. Mine didn't," said $BOSS. "The power must not have gone off in my office." (Note: the lights blinked everywhere in the office suite, including his office.)
"Er, $BOSS? That's because you have a laptop. It has a battery."
$BOSS said "Oh."
He bought me a UPS after that (I'd been lobbying for one for years).
Long ago, I was the #2 person in a small computer support firm of 4 employees. One day, the power blinked long enough to make all of the computers we had turn off and then back on again. I said "#&@(#!", and $BOSS said "What happened?"
"The power blinked! My PC just rebooted!" (we yelled back and forth between our offices, usually.)
"Huh. Mine didn't," said $BOSS. "The power must not have gone off in my office." (Note: the lights blinked everywhere in the office suite, including his office.)
"Er, $BOSS? That's because you have a laptop. It has a battery."
$BOSS said "Oh."
He bought me a UPS after that (I'd been lobbying for one for years).
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