Lack of 8-bit threads (was Re: Linux question)

[Doc Shipley]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Fred Cisin wrote:
>>> (When they start packaging food in those blankin' soddin' vinyl 
>>> packages, I
>>> expect to start hearing of people starving to death for being unable 
>>> to open them.)
>>
>> ~25 years ago, a student in the lab managed to get the mylar out of it's
>> jacket of a 5.25" diskette.  Somebody asked her, "how come you didn't
>> realize that something was wrong when it was so hard to take apart?"
>> She replied, "it's just about as hard to open a bag of potato chips"
> 
> I once got a similar explanation from someone who forced a second 3.5" 
> floopy into a drive.  "It wasn't that hard."

   I repaired a PeeCee awhile back that belonged to a child-care center, 
used by kids 5-10 years old.  It kept throwing random reboots, and it 
turned out it was overheating.

   There were 12 or 15 CDs in the case, some on top of the CD drive and 
several that had fallen down behind it.  One was almost flush against 
the PSU's inside vent grille.

   The kids had been trying to load disks and shoving them between the 
drive bezel and the drive-bay cover plate above it.


	Doc