Funniest ID 10 T error

We were getting away from 3278 terminals and into PCs with a terminal program that emulated the 3278.

We had a user getting used to the 3278 emulation on her new computer, and 'PA2' was used quite a bit, which was mapped to the center 'Page Down' key.

To help her, I penciled 'PA2' just below the key on the keyboard. When she called one day to say that her form wouldn't submit when she pressed PA2, I went up to try to figure out what was wrong, and had her start a new form.

When she filled the form out, she went to press 'PA2', and was pressing the [b]pencil mark![/b]

It really was all I could do to keep a straight face....

It is a toss up, one department was reorganizing and moving PCs to different locations. They were attempting to do this without help from the IT department (nor did we know about it). Later on that day I recieved a call stating that somebodys computer would not turn on. I asked weather or not the monitor had power to it and they didn't know the answer, so I went up to check on it. They had two cords sitting next to the computer not plugged in, and they were the power cords for the monitor and for the tower.

#2 is a little shorter, my neighbor who tended to start drinking at 8 in the morning said that he lost his memory chip for his digital camera in his computer, so i took a look, he was trying to put it in through the cd-rom drive.

both pretty much Id10t's

I was contracted to South Carolina Department of Human Services. One of the division directors rearranged her office, including the several-hundred pound wrap-around cherry wood "J" desk. After it was all over, she was unable to power up her PC and printer, so I got called.

I of course verified that all power cords were secure at the devices and plugged in to the power strip. I then traced the cable from the power strip to another power strip and traced the cable from the second power strip...back to the first power strip.

Got a case of beer for keeping quiet about that one while I worked there... :^0

Back when the IBM PC was first being introduced, the monochrome monitor had a mating connector that plugged into the power supply of the PC and not into an outlet. The user called and said she couldn't get the plug to fit into the power strip supplied with her unit. I could barely contain myself as I plugged it into the base unit and flipped the power switch. She turn a bit red and confessed it was her first PC. I agreed that it was indeed the first PC for everyone.

I got a late night call once from a branch office, the guy was telling me that his VT100 terminal just died, I told him to use another and I ship one out the next morning. He told me that all the terminal were dead. I asked him to check the MegaMUX (big modem). He told me it was to dark to see that the only light on in the building were the the flashlight kind in the corners. "Dude ... you're in a power failure"

and I was the tech sent to fix it.

That's how we met - and we've been married 27 years.

the eBusiness office of the Navy in Mechanicsburg PA. One of the officers calls my phone frantically telling me that her internet is not working and that she needs it right away. I make my way up to her desk and start troubleshooting. I open IE and the homepage opens up just fine. I drop down the toolbar and take a look at the history. I asked her what site she was trying to access and she tells me that she is trying to get onto Google. In her history is written www.goggle.com. I pointed out her error and she felt really silly.

A month later, the same exact thing happened. Needless to say the second time I created her a shortcut on her desktop.