Techie ran up $40,000 bill downloading a driver
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Techie ran up $40,000 bill downloading a driver
"I loved it!"
"I played games, music, and learned coding in BASIC and C."
"I requested the whole of the latest update to OS/2 -"
William grew up using a Commodore Amiga and learned BASIC and C while enjoying games and music. He later bought a PC but preferred IBM's OS/2 over Windows, partly because OS/2 was used at his workplace. When a driver update was required, dial-up constraints and household phone-line concerns made downloading at home impractical. The employer used an automated email-driven patch service that split large files into 1.4MB floppy-sized chunks. William had tools to concatenate those chunks and had previously built binaries at work. Confident, he requested the entire latest OS/2 update from work but made an important error.
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