serial monitor?

[Larommi]

I had this lady call in saying that her office was struck by lightning and she was trying to piece a few computers together to get them going. She said she works on computers all the time and she needed a part.

I asked her what she needed and she said she needed to make her nine pin connector a female(gender changer). I said we did not carry them. Having no idea what it was for I asked her. She said she needed to plug in her monitor. I asked her again what it was she needed. I figured she said the wrong part. She told me she needed a nine pin gender changer. I explained that she was looking at the serial port. I asked her to make sure she was trying to plug the monitor into the correct spot. She said yes and was getting irritated with me. I asked her if she was looking at the back of the computer or just reaching around feeling for the socket to plug into. She said she was looking at it. I asked her to count the pins. She of course said there was two rows of pins adding up to nine and the monitor had three rows of pins. There was a long pause and then she asked me if I had an adapter. I tried to explain that she was trying to plug into the wrong spot. She then asked if she should be plugging into com1 or com2. I told her to look for a diagram of a monitor or a serial shaped socket with 15 holes. Well, I think she found it because I heard her say "sh*t" as she hung up on me. I still laugh about it now and then.

By the way what is the strangest thing you ever pulled out of a floppy drive or cd-rom?
I got a jammed cd out of a non-tray Compaq cd-rom drive that the customer said they had already got two others out. Their child, I think his name was "I didn't do it", had kept jamming cds in when they would not work!!!

[jhutto]

WEll out of a apple floppy drive I got over $2 in change.

[Urgefor]

I would have to say a floppy disk itself. The only twist was the user had managed to put it into the drive sideways. After removing it, I tried myself to place a disk into the drive sideways (3.5 fdd). I still have not figured out how this person was able to accomplish that bit of "magic".

[Larommi]

Yeah, I think if you use a big enough hammer you can get anything into a floppy drive.


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I always do what the voices in my head tell me!

[Krandia]

Out of a Cd-rom I had gotten out Molded Chesse, But someone in here got a pair of G-string Biknis out of a CD-rom with the couple in the room with him and lets just say they didnt belong to the wife,

[Garfeild_Cat]

Well that is interesting, however, I do know of a "coffe and cake" one.

The first year that CDRs came out my co-worker (day job) asked for help in fixing his comp. It seems that his little girl (3 Yrs old) was hungry and thought that the computer must be hungry also.

She fed a "slurpy and very goopy" PB&J sandwich to his brand new >$1200. CDR....
it was a total loss (almost-- it is now used for a coffe cup holder =0P"" )

[wojo]

My 3 year old son managed to jam 2 dimes, 5 pennies and a floppy disk upside down and backwards (if u can envision that) into my new LS-120 drive. It stopped working one day so I yanked it to throw it away and after shaking it I heard a rattle. Assuming he broke something (he likes to put the disks into the drive) I shook it hard and out popped money!

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** Schizophrenia - Mother Nature's way of Multitasking **

[Frostbite]

I managed to get a couple of quarters out of a CD-ROM Drive once. Other than that it's usually Dust bunnies or Nicotine stains...Uck!

[Saki]

People just don't know what parts are what, shouldn't blame them. A couple weeks back I gave my old 386 computer to my sister. Her kids stuck CDs in the 5 1/4 inch floppy drive and when they bring it back I looked at it and saw that there was not just one CD, but two CD. They actually bent a part of the drive.