The Register, Friday, October 10th, 2025
Client Defended Engineer After Oil Baron-Turned Tech Support Entrepreneur Lied About Dodgy Dealings
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Vol 331 · Issue 2
Humor — Archive · Vol 331 Issue 2
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The Register, Monday, October 6th, 2025
Techie Found An Error Message So Rude The CEO Of IBM Apologized For It
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Saul" who shared a story from his time working for an IBM dealer in the late 1980s. "I'd taught myself how to use a PC/DOS and got the job because I knew more about PCs than the hiring manager or the team lead," Saul told Who, Me? On his first day at the coal face, his boss asked him to learn something new: UNIX.
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