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by noir_lord 3229 days ago
Seen that.

Shared drive with excel files, people would shout at each other to 'release the lock'

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Yeah, first real job had the customer database as a VB frontend onto an Access file shared over {whatever Win95 was using in 1996-97}. After a few snafus, the CS / Sales people learned that they had to single-task with the database.