So they don't have to be installed in pairs? :}

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Captain F.M. O'Lary wrote:

> At 06:43 PM 1/18/01 +0000, Freda Lockert wrote:
> [ . . .]
> >Someone on the Adobe GoLive user forum posted this link in response 
> >to a complaint about NN6's failings. It suggests we amend our sites 
> >to support NN6, and that NN6 will drag us towards greater compliance 
> >with W3C standards.
> [ . . .]
> >
> >http://www.webreference.com/js/column72/
> >Cheers.
> >Freda
> 
> And just last week I walked into the local computer superstore (national
> chain) and asked for "a seventy two pin non-parity edo ramm simm" in "sixty
> four mega-byte".
> 
> This cute little pimply blond college kid looked me right in the eye with a
> straight face and said:
> 
> "We don't have that Sir. All the memory we sell must be installed in pairs."
> 
> After spending 10 minutes explaining the basics of computer memory to him,
> showing him the separately packaged simms he had hanging on the wall right
> behind him, I had to say that I knew the McDonalds down the street was
> hiring, and walk away. He quite simply still did not understand.
> 
> It is a plague: Stupidity. It is rampant and spreading fast.
> 
> Fuzzy
> <na, no hidden issues in *my* closet to deal with>
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