[geeks] timesheet and invoicing software

[Michael Parson]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:50:07PM +0000, wa2egp at att.net wrote:
>> Has anyone seen the story about the $0.00 check?  Probably apocryphal, but:

<snip>

>> This man, who had been considering buying his wife a computer for her 
>> birthday, bought her a typewriter instead.
>>
>> Peace...  Sridhar
>
> If you read my earlier post, the $0.00 check was claimed to be done by
> one of my professors related to me in Introductory Data Processing
> class in 1971 IIRC.  No computer crash though.  Maybe his bank had better
> programmers :)    Gee, let's see when (and where) this story actually 
> originated.

So I headed over to snopes and found this:

http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/zero.asp

Unknown origins of story, not enough details to debunk or verify.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org