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"Back in the old days" when I worked at the retail photo lab before getting into aerial photography they were a bunch of folks that could use computers if they had a set of instructions. No one really understood computers. Then I came along. One issue was on the main money making system the photographic printer. It was a system with all Kodak supported IBM branded computers, running Windows NT 4.0. One little file would get corrupted and the system would quit working. When the operators called Kodak, they too were just "follow the procedure book" readers. They would reload the entire OS from CD. That takes hours. No production.
I set up a simple floppy based boot disk that would run a simple batch file, and copy that one critical file back to where it was needed, and then pop out the floppy and and reboot. Back on line. I had to get the owner of the company to tell the operators of that machine to give it a try. They were convinced only the "great yellow father" AKA Kodak could fix it.
When they finally saw that my cure would get them back into production in minutes not many hours they were amazed.
Come to find out they really liked just sitting on their butts, talking to tech support and not having to make prints. They were mad at me for ruining their break from real work.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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