Make me laugh - the PF memes thread - NO POLITICAL MEMES

**Stephanie B** · 01-24-2020, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by Stephanie B

This is no shit: One of the engineers where I was working was having troubles with getting his CAD program to work. (This was in the days of Window 3.0 or 3.1.) I had wandered by his cubbie and he complained to me about it. I asked if he had reformatted his hard drive. He didn't answer and I wandered off in search of coffee.

Two days later, he was screaming at me because he had done that, he couldn't get some programs to work. I pointed out that I didn't suggest that he do that, I only asked if he had.

This was back in the day when all installation programs came on 3.5" floppy disks (sometimes, a lot of floppies). Some of the makers of those programs didn't bother to make the floppies read-only after loading the installation program.

Sure enough, the idiot had used a few of those disks for file storage. It wasn't so bad that he had screwed up a couple of Windows 3.11 disks, as a couple of those were available. But he had done that to at least one CAD program disk and he was the only one in the company with that program. I don't remember how much it cost him to get a replacement, but he was crying about it for a long time.

His boss took great pleasure in telling him that the company wouldn't pay for it, so either he had to or it was back to the good old drawing board.

Good times.

**rayrevolver** · 01-24-2020, 08:55 AM

We used to install software on 737 as recently as a few years ago with 3.5" floppies. Had these huge binders of disks. I assume most operators have gone to CDs by 2016.

It took 4 hours for new FMC loads (I think 28 day Nav data was just a few disks) and when you had a bad disk it was all for not.