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 Message 8006 
 Sean Dennis to mark lewis 
 Funny tech support story 
 13 Jan 22 09:28:47 
 
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CHRS: IBMPC 2
Hello mark,

Thursday January 13 2022 08:07, you wrote to Mick Manning:

 ml> it is beside the ANY key ;)

Funny story: in the late 90s, I was working at Sears TeleServ in Round Rock
Texas, just down the road from Dell HQ.  I was a tier 2 phone tech: if you
bought a computer from Sears and one of their "maintenance asgreements", I was
the helpful voice at the other end of the phone to fix what you broke.

I remember around 10 AM on a slow Wednesday morning I had a call put into my
queue about someone unable to find the "any key".  Some poor Tier 1 script
reader put that call through to me.  I had to really use restraint from
laughing as I informed the woman that there was no "any key".

Hmm, you've given me an idea for a column called "Funny Tech Stories". 

-- Sean

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