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Prohibition and Aristocrat

Background Once upon a time, I worked. My boss decided to send me up to the North East state of Assam, famous for tea and rain. The tea is the best in the world. The rain is the most in the world. There is also the unexplained mystery of birds gathering at one…

  • Post published: March 28, 2014
  • Post category:1980s/Humour/Memoirs
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Mr Deka's Nightmare – Part 3

Click for Part 1 of the Story Click for Part 2 of the Story That night the three of us did not get to bed as Anirban took apart every card, every peripheral and reassembled the machine and the cycle of testing continued. I learnt to use a multi-meter that day as I…

  • Post published: January 7, 2013
  • Post category:1980s/Memoirs
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Mr Deka's Nightmare – Part 2

Part 1 Elsewhere in the city, I was busy doing the rounds of my 5 installations, each in different stages of readiness, some where the air conditioning was not installed to some where the printers supplied were the wrong sort. Of the 5 only one of the computers, or as they were called…

  • Post published: January 4, 2013
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Mr Deka's Nightmare – Part 1

Anirban was still putting the panels back on as Deb rebooted the computer and Deb it was who saw it first. And with Mr Deka standing at Deb’s shoulder the game was afoot. I was elsewhere in the same city, dealing with problems with my own set of installations. But let me start…

  • Post published: January 4, 2013
  • Post category:1980s/Memoirs
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