Wayne Goode, Software Engineer, SAIC ,Huntsville, Ala.

I see you finally made a back-up copy of Windows 95 from the hard drive.
Dan Elliott, Engineer, Distributed Systems, York, Pa.

Edna was promoted from within housekeeping that morning. Bob was wondering if she really did Windex the "cut little r ound thing" in all of his floppy disks.
John "J.B." Butler, Solomon Technology

Movable Object Technology finally comes to the desktop.
Stephen E. Einson, President, Custom Technology Systems, New York

. . . Text, graphics, audio and video clips; yes, but you can't send 'scratch and sniff' cards via the Internet!
Watson Kilbourne, Principal, Compugraphx, Coto de Caza, Calif.

Judy cannot believe John bought the diskette version of Windows NT instead of the CD-ROM version.
Earl Mitchell, Senior Staff Engineer, Terayon Corp., Santa Clara, Calif.

No, silly, I said, "What's our discount ?"
Mark Klemkosky, Senior Engineer, Intel Corp., Chandler, Ariz.

This is how Intel sorts the Pentium chip by speed.
Ira Feldman, Senior Scientist, Hughes Aircraft Co., Fullerton, Calif.

Files on your DISK? I thought you asked me to arrange the files on your DESK !
Praka sh Madhvapathy, Systems Engineer, SLC, Philips Semiconductors, Sunnyvale, Calif.

Hey Bob, I'll trade you my mint-condition Lotus 1-2-3 v1.0 for your Windows 1.0.
David R. Hoy, Software Engineer, Rockwell International, Land Transportation Electronics

There, I've put a copy of all your icons onto your desktop. Now will you please quit rearranging my windows everytime I take a coffee break?
David C. Barber, Consultant, San Diego

See I told you to get the latest version of Microsoft Office on CD-ROM. Find disk #3749 by yourself!
Andrew Szalasny, Software Engineer, Xerox Corp., Rochester, N.Y.

Of course you couldn't find any data files; those are coasters.
Michael T. Wright, Principal Staff Engineer, Motorola SSTG, Scottsdale, Ariz.

I don't remember where I store the data file, but it is in one of these disks.
James Yeh, Design Engineer, Amdahl Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif.

I realize that you've had some big wins in the past, but do you really think that a trading card series called "The Hackers of Microsoft" will have much appeal outside of the CompUSA crowd?
Arnie Berger, Director of R&D, Applied Microsystems Corp. Redmond, Wash.

Hey Bob-how are you coming along on the backup of your new 9-gigabyte hard drive?
Patrick A. Colvin, Senior Software Engineer, Cubic Defense Systems, San Diego

No, No, No. You misunderstood. The $500 computer comes with keyboard and monitor, but your available options are here: CPU, clock, VRAM, DRAM, glue logic . . .
Fred Shubert, MTS, Bell Laboratories, Whippany, N.J.

An all-hands meeting at a typical virtual corporation.
Glen Riley, General Manager, Mass Storage ICs, Lucent Technologies, Allentown, Pa.

I have tested and sorted out all the free diskettes we have received in the mail. This stack is good for coasters, that is for paper weight, t hese are for leveling furnitures . . . and those are your son's frisbees.
Jackson Leung, Design Engineer, Texas Instruments, Houston

But Mr. Smith, you asked for a sloppy desk . . .
Marco L. Forcone, Senior Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corp., Great River, N.Y.