eventually they started moving all their systems up to the newest WordPerfect versions, on Windows 95, where file extensions are important!
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but they could just assign all the secretary initials to open in wordperfect, right? BAS, KDH, etc.
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Except my grandmother, their main secretary, who wrote the greatest number of documents... Barbara Millicent Peterson.
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.BMP oh dear. oh very dear indeed.pic.twitter.com/KqKEoLU2rp
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Fuck yeah. Also, that’s the RoboCop 2 version, so even better.
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Hahahaha! I only read the entire thread now. This is so great.
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What a story. I once ran Norton file sorter on a Windows 95 LFN drive. But it was a version that didn’t understand LFN.
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It scrambled everything and I had to spend a day reordering the fake LFN file entries back to be next to the short names.
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I then made an illustration to commemorate all this.https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/767091181599678464 …
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Point being: I wonder how many cool file/extension stories are out there!
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