Subj : Funny tech support story
To   : mark lewis
From : Andrey Mundirov
Date : Fri Jan 14 2022 03:33 am

Здравствуй, mark!

Ответ на сообщение mark lewis (1:3634/12.73) к Sean Dennis, написанное 13 янв 22 в 14:37:

 ml> when i lived in xxcarol's area back when we joined fidonet, we had
 ml> installed a number of computers with networking and printers in a law
 ml> firm... i don't remember the exact number but it was a decent sized
 ml> contract so let's call it 50 systems... in the initial week, we they
 ml> were getting used to the systems and installing all their software, we
 ml> fielded several calls a day, generally from the typing pool, about the
 ml> ANY key... after several days of this, i was told, "go over there and
 ml> solve the problem once and for all."

I'm surprised this problem existed in English-speaking countries, where everyone knows meaning of word "any".
In Russia it was much harder, because in 90's most software was not translated to Russian. We even had special job title "anykeyshik" - junior sysadmin who tells users where is "any key".

С наилучшими пожеланиями, Andrey
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