Oh, I could tell you some stories. When we did some early ships of advanced workstations to universities, I had a bunch of complaints from Cambridge University that their optical mice were failing randomly. I phoned the lab tec to find out what was going on .. these mice used two colours of LED, and a reflective pad with a grid of lines on. So, he told me that one in particular was random, jerky, and sometimes the mouse pointer wouldn't move at all. I asked him for the serial number of the failing mouse (thinking was there a bad batch?) .. he said Hang on, just have to shut the blinds so I can read the number - sunlight is too strong ... (a long pause) ... oh, wait, it's working now.
And that was a leading academic institution. Speaks to the difference between intelligence and common sense, I feel. I had another complaint from a customer somewhere in NY state that one of my workstations had a CRT screen where the image wobbled. Just the one. .. on a hunch I asked him where it was in the room. Next to a wall, he said. Can you move it away from the wall? Oh, look, it has stopped wobbling now. What's the other side of that wall? A huge transformer serving power to the building apparently. *sigh* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/83b7304e-4675-4046-867c-d87e43ae1fda%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
