rant of the day

[Adam]

On 21 Aug 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:

>So I go in to install the brand-new HP 8550N.  After about an
>hour of reading manuals, carefully lining up arrows, and shoving,
>I get the drum cartridge, black toner cartridge, cyan toner
>cartridge, magenta toner cartridge, and yellow toner cartridge
>installed.  

Oooh :)

>Now it's time to install the RAM.  Yowza: this nutty department
>actually bought 64 MB x 6 DIMMs for the thing.  Along with the 64
>MB that it comes with, that's a total of 448 MB of RAM.  WTF is a
>*printer* going to use 448 MB of RAM for?  Anyway, that goes fine
>too.


>Then I come to the stack of hard drives.  Yes, *stack*: there are
>three hard drives on the table ready to be installed.  What's
>more, the thing has a built-in 3 GB HDD.

We wont tell if you have to install them into your pants pockets to make
the printer work ;)

>And, of course, there's the fact that the HP manuals don't even
>*mention* how to use the printer over a network in a UNIX
>environment, but go on at great length on how to use it
>from... <drum roll> *OS/2*, of all operating systems.  I'm sure
>that both of the OS/2 users on the planet are very happy with
>this smart, strategic choice.

I thought only oses which boot into a GUI out of the box need
instructions? :)