User Unboxed A PC So Badly It 'Broke' And Only A Nail File Could Fix It
The Register, Friday, May 23rd, 2025
For once, the IT department was rewarded for finding the fix, and the perfect-if-unexpected fixer
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Harriet," who shared a tale from the mid-1990s when she worked as a software trainer and technical writer.
"My boss believed in making the most of everyone's talents and had noticed that I was fairly adept at hardware as well as software," Harriet told On Call. That attitude meant that the boss decided Harriet was ready to handle a tech support job.
"I was told a computer was behaving very strangely - constantly beeping and scrolling through its bootup process - so she sent me to have a look."