In the early 90s the "info channel" of my local Warner Cable system contained a request, written in strangely familar light blue 40 column text on a blue background, asking for anybody who knew how to format a floppy disk in an Atari 800 to call the local cable company office. I called and made arrangements to meet somebody there. I got my mother to drive me to the office at the appointed time. I met a man who showed us into a room with an Atari 800XL and a floppy drive.

The man explained that they used this computer to make "data disks" to be taken to the "head end", where another Atari 800XL ran the info channel. They'd run out of working disks. The engineer who'd set it up left on bad terms. They didn't know how to format more disks, but they knew that's what they needed because the manual for the software advised them so.

I showed the man how to format a disk. They comped a month of my family's cable bill (though their was some consternation when he found out we had the "premium" package). That may be the first time in my life I did "IT work" and received compensation, now that I think about it.