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With nothing to go on, Sean ordered in nine complete sets of hardware and paid the eye-watering extra cost to get the kit delivered same day. The next morning, armed with a bulging site pack full of gear, he hopped on a train to London and set off on a voyage into the unknown. He was at least a little familiar with the client's site and, upon arrival, headed directly to the location where the stricken devices had been installed. They were all working perfectly. Apart from one, which just needed to be switched on. The client turned up shortly after, wanting to know how long the job was going t...

Goodbye, Mr Chips Share Copy On Call There are few things worse than when someone nicks your chips, be they of the potato or silicon variety as our latest delve into the annals of On Call reveals. "Ben", as the Regomiser has dubbed today's contributor, was tasked with supporting a network consisting of a pair of decade old HP1000 minicomputers. The devices ran the Real Time Executive (RTE) operating system (RTE6, according to Ben) and the software used by his company was written in Fortran. The application itself was to analyse oil wells and a Versatec plotter was used to spit out a c...

Practical jokes: just don't Richard Speed Fri 23 Apr 2021 // 07:31 UTC Share On Call Welcome to another entry in The Register's On Call files, where we learn that the hilarious pranks of an IT joker can be enjoyed as much as millionaire actor George Clooney's "fun" leg-pulling. "Jim" returns once more to pages of On Call with a tale of poorly targeted japery and an unfunny practical joke. Is there any other sort? We skip once more to the 1980s and the mighty IBM XT, a fleet of which Jim was tasked with supporting. Data entry had been done by punch cards back in the da...

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Not quite what we meant by 'disk capacity' Richard Speed Fri 16 Apr 2021 // 07:15 UTC Share Copy On Call Welcome back to On Call and a timely reminder that no matter how careful and clear you think your instructions are, a user will somehow always misunderstand. Our tale, from a reader Regomised as "Keith", takes us back to simpler times: the era of the 5.25-inch floppy disk and software updates mailed out to users rather than flung out at inconvenient times by an unforgiving internet. Keith recalled a call from a customer complaining that the update of the company's p...