Date   : Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:44:18 +0100
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Risc PC (Was 'Minitel in France')

On 26 July 2011 15:23, J.G.Harston <jgh@...> wrote:
> Jules Richardson wrote:
>> J.G.Harston wrote:
>>> The job booking system at %BIGCORP% runs in a terminal session in the
>
> I should have known that telling anybody I had a job would jinx it.
> I've just been fired, where %BIGCORP%="Dixons KNOWHOW telephone
> customer support", after two weeks, one day and four hours.

Commiserations.  Although many may feel it a lucky escape.

I think you might have fallen into the "knows too much" category.
After all, we can't have Dixons staff suddenly gaining the reputation
that they actually know something, can we?


> It was occassionally refered to as "the mainframe".

Ah yes... I decommissioned one of those once... turned out to be a
rack with lots of blanking plates, a UPS sat in the bottom and a
rack-mount 486 in the top!  Most of the PCs being used as terminals to
the multi-user OS on it were of a higher spec by then!

Rob