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   Message 8,006 of 8,941   
   Sean Dennis to mark lewis   
   Funny tech support story   
   13 Jan 22 09:28:47   
   
   MSGID: 1:18/200@fidonet.org 61dff0e0   
   REPLY: 1:3634/12.73 61e02437   
   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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