Subj : Re: Thin client PC to run MS-DOS
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Nov 28 2025 09:38:01

  Re: Re: Thin client PC to run MS-DOS
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Thu Nov 27 2025 10:01 am

 PF> Working in IT in small companies, people tried to get me to fix lots of
 PF> things that weren't IT related by adding the word "server" to it.

 PF> Once I was asked to reboot the coffee "server". In all fairness, it was a
 PF> Rube Goldberg-esque machine with an internal conveyor belt made of filter
 PF> paper. a contraption pressed coffee down onto the filter and passed hot
 PF> water through it. The conveyor moved onto a fresh piece of filter, and the
 PF> coffee contraption dumped the puck into a trash bin. All this happened
 PF> through little peepholes in the case, with the interior lit up. It looked
 PF> like an erector set on the inside.

I don't know what "coffee server" would mean..  But that contraption sounds pretty cool.

Nightfox

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