Scenario Four.

There is this real weirdo that I know. Packrats and Jackdaws could learn from this person. He hoards every computer program/gadget/oddball thing that has ever come his way.

He has 4 apples, 1 HP, 2 Xt's, and a 20MB DX486 with 4GB harddrive. There is a ten foot by sixteen foot cupboard where he keeps literally thousands of Floppies, stiffies, tapes and a couple of hundred CD roms. He is new to CD rom so that is why the collection is still small. He tends to go for 600MB generic shareware titles. Things like Megabyte Monster, Night Owl etc abound.

He currently uses MSDOS versions 3.2 thru 6.20. Doesn't like 6.22 because it bombs his Norton. Uses Win31, Win 95, OS/2 Warp 3, Linux 1.2.8 and 2.0, and is waiting for his NT 4 CD. Bitches about Internet bandwidth because it limits him to 60MB of download per night.

Currently expert in Assembler, Cobol, Fortran, C, C++, Java, Snobol, Forth, etc. Links to IBM SNA, uses TCP/IP, HTTP, ec etc. Doesn't sleep. Insists that every program ever acquired be Y2k compliant. Attila the Hun was more reasonable.

Apart from personality disorders, this Cinderella type has a problem with sheer volume. Just to keep track of his inventory is difficult. The parameters needed to supply the demands of his processing and incessant state of system change is staggering. This is "Class 3 Y2k object".



Sponsored in part by

Try Me?