Computer giant Fry's forced to return to quaint "paper" system

A CORRESPONDENT from California was enjoying some computer shopping yesterday at billion dollar retail sales chain Fry's in Sacramento when a computer glitch forced the firm to go back to using "paper".

According to our reader, Fry's computer system went off line at around 3PM yesterday, forcing the staff to go scrabbling around for this archaic substance.

For our younger readers, paper is something that's made from things the old inhabitants of the planet used to call "trees".

These "trees" - we've never seen one except in a museum, were chopped up and pulped to produce flat sheets of "paper".

Newspapers used to be "printed" on this "paper" using something called "ink" and distributed by vast networks across countries so people could "read them" in the morning and then use them to put cat litter in or to eat things called "fish" and "chips" out of. Weird, eh?

If you have never seen this sort of thing before, we're providing a picture of this "paper" for your interest. Presumably Fry's had a supply of this quaint paper from the last century, which they could probably have sold on Ebay as "antiques". The "paper" has probably gone yellow because of its antiquity. µ