Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
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chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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not computers......just technology. but hey, most of you fuckers aren't even attempting to answer the question.
my girlfriend and i were visiting her octagenarian grandparents a few months ago and were told about a problem with their freeview box. my girlfriend's dad had been round earlier in the day, had a fiddle about with it and couldn't find a problem so he recommended they call out an engineer to fix it.
in an attempt to earn some brownie points with the GFs family, i decided to have a look. i got down on my hands and knees to see which cables were which and as my hand brushed against the SCART plug in the back of the freeview box, the TV screen suddenly sprung back to life.
turns out the cable had been ever so slightly loose and her dad didn't have a clue what he was supposed to be looking at, so didn't really bother. they think the sun shines out of his arse so they took his word as gospel that it was fucked and could only be fixed by an expensive, qualified engineer.
i was immediately hailed as a technological genius!
ok, shit story, but what else have i got to do on a friday afternoon?
/cock
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:33, Reply)
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