[952] in Humor
[alt.sysadmin.recovery] Just another day at work :-)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (marthag@MIT.EDU)
Fri Jun 30 16:25:15 1995
From: marthag@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 16:20:15 -0400
To: humor@MIT.EDU
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Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
From: n1ist@netcom.com (Michael L. Ardai)
Subject: Just another day at work :-)
Organization: Utopia Planetia Shipyards - Mars
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 20:02:40 GMT
From 'the Funniest Computer Songs', side 0...
Sure sounds familiar :-)
Would you put this system together for me
some I ordered by mail and parts I got free.
The pieces all work, except two or three.
Please, Mr. Compatibility.
Now with my Amiga, all I want to do
is running MacDraw underneath OS/2,
to write all my data on ROM-type CD,
and display EGA on projection TV.
I'd like to plug hypercard into my VAX,
run my parallel printer on standard coax;
Use it all under MS-DOS version 3.2,
and a VCR on RS-232.
My Cray running friendly interfaces with ease,
to movie film shown on a 13-foot screen;
My plotter and laser should speak Postscript well,
networked on Appletalk under Novell.
Autocad my Atari, VGA TTL;
tied to my Apple ][ running Excell.
Lay optic fiber, shaped in a token ring
with a scanner and tablet - I forget anything?
Put all this together - take an hour or two;
hide those ugly cables, and when you are thru
write up a contract saying you'd guarantee
it'll all work forever, or you'd fix it for free.
Would you put this system together for me
some I ordered by mail and parts I got free.
The pieces all work, except two or three.
Please, Mr. Compatibility.
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