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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Got a call at work from my girlfriend......I'd just built her a computer, and she was at home playing with it.
"It won't turn on, the screen is blank"
Thinking I must have forgotten to turn on the power switch on the back of the PC, I tell her that there is a little switch on the back, and to press it.
She puts the phone down and toddles off.
I hear a enourmous BANG!
A shaky quiet voice comes back on to the phone.
"I think I broke it.."
Racking my brains to try and work out how she cuold possibly have blown up a PC just by turning it on, I have a look on the back of my work PC to see what she would have seen.
Oh shit.
"Which switch did you press?"
"The little red one"
"The really really little red one?"
"Yes"
"The one that says 240/110V on it?"
"Stop shouting at me, you said the little switch!!"
Lesson: Always make your instructions as unambigous as possible....
(, Mon 25 Sep 2006, 17:36, Reply)
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