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Thank you. Though you only helped one kid, someone else helped me... ...I was once the precocious high-schooler; in my History class I put a .com file in the p
by sounds 15y ago
Thank you. Though you only helped one kid, someone else helped me...
...I was once the precocious high-schooler; in my History class I put a .com file in the program's directory that ran a look-alike program which didn't in fact work - on perhaps the only IBM PC in the school.
(Since DOS executed .com's first, and only the .exe if no .com was found, adding a .com was a prank and harmless, but that didn't help my case.)
It was only a few years later, me interviewing for a job at a tech company that the manager told me he was my History teacher's husband, and had cleaned up my mess.
I could only thank him for both placating my teacher and then going on to offer me a job.
In hindsight, I could have figured out that the nicest PC in the school wouldn't be there just out of sheer random chance...