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It's the early 1990s, and time for the sales guys in a remote office to enter the world of PCs, says an IT pilot fish who's supposed to make it happen.

"These three sales people had been happily working without PCs all their lives, and were not too excited about the prospect of joining the IT revolution," fish says.

"I could tell that one of them was more reluctant than the others, and I fully expected an uphill battle to get him to use his computer more than absolutely necessary."

None of the sales guys have used PCs before, so after setting up the top-of-the-line desktop computers, fish gives them a few hours of training on the basics of using both the PCs themselves and the software they'll be working with.

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