On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off

The Register
May 15, 2026, 2:30 am116 pts
ON CALL Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that celebrates the IT professionals who put their lives on pause to provide tech support at all hours. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Jemaine." In the early 1990s, he found himself in Hong Kong…

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