Re: “KDE For Windows 10 Exiles” Campaign

On Sat, 6/7/2025 8:40 AM, chrisv wrote:

T wrote:
 

One customer I had, does not upgrade any hardware until
it dies.  When their server went down, it really cost and
hurt them.

 
Crazy.
 

It's been proven, that computers are an optional part of
any business.

Just buy lots of boxes of three-part carbon paper,
and some pads of quad-rule paper for taking notes,
and that is enough for the job.

That's what I liked about my work. On the one hand,
we could be spending three or four million a year,
designing cavity-buster silicon chips. And if you
needed a phone installed at your desk there, the
order was filled out on three part carbon paper,
and the employees had robust ancient-looking desks
with "inbox" tray and "outbox" tray for the three
part carbon (one copy of your order goes there).

And if you phoned up and asked "where is that telephone
installation I asked for a month ago", you would hear
"ruffle-ruffle-ruffle" as the individual would
"fast index" the pile of paper on its desk :-)
That was the height of the comedy, the ruffling noise.
"Wow, that sounds faster than SQLITE".

We simply could not break the paper habit.

If an organization was <cough> "forced" to accept
computerized ordering, what happens then ?

The twits print off three copies of your order,
put one copy of fresh clean typing paper in
"Bobs inbox" and "away we go". Four weeks later,
"ya gotcha phone, what are ya complaining about now?".

They would promptly thwart the appearance of computer ordering,
by immediately printing off three copies.

So really, when push comes to shove, that old 386
in the storage room, wasn't doing much of anything
anyway. Three part carbon, saves the day. The employees
just love the paper. And a manager walking by,
knows when to order up another employee, based on
how tall the stack is in each in-basket.

   Paul