[geeks] Big Blue Smoke

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:

> > On the 3090-200J that I played with a few years ago, we had a large
> > crate arrive from spain. Of its own accord.
> > What the fsck is this, said I?
> > Just then, Gordon Bennett, from IBM, Greenock walked in and said, that
> > will be the replacement DASD unit that your system ordered.
> > Jolly good said I.
> > And I returned to playing Doom on the helpdek PC
>
> Same thing here back around Christmas, 'cept it was a guy from EMC with a
> replacement power supply. 8-)

The coolest thing of this sort I've ever seen is an IBM representetive
came to my house when I had my first G1 running in my parents' house and
replaced blown *RAM*, and I didn't even have a service contract!

Peace...  Sridhar