Most printer install fails are incompatible drivers, cables, interface, or power, but this one takes the cake.
Anyone ever heard of a tape measure?
Jonesy
7:06 pm on Dec 1, 2019 (gmt 0)
A couple hundred years ago a bank in Denver had its computer room on an upper floor of their downtown headquarters building. At some point in the late 60's or early 70's the replacement/upgrade mainframe equipment they ordered would not fit in the freight elevator. They used a crane in the alley to hoist the equipment up to a window which they knocked out and rebuilt as a HUGE window. Surely over the years that equipment had to come out, too. One would assume they went through the same exercise. I believe that building is still there; I wonder if that "strange" window still exists...
lucy24
7:19 pm on Dec 1, 2019 (gmt 0)
It does seem to me that removing a few doorways and then reinstalling them couldn’t possibly cost anywhere near 800,000. Now, if only they had realized it ahead of time so it could have been incorporated in the original, authorized budget...
otoh, I’ve got a nebulous recollection that some small old building on the UC Davis campus was all set to be relocated to make room for newer construction. Only after they’d got it on the truck, closed off all the streets and started moving did they discover that there were trees in the way.
