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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A couple of my personal favourites.I do some PC work in the transport industry (bus companies mostly) and that's where I've found most of the really interesting computer abuse.
First off was a computer with a partially melted keyboard. Apparently someone had spilled coffee on it and subsequently tried to dry it out with one of the heat guns that they use for fitting bonded windscreens.
Second was the guy who was fed up with having his keyboard pinched. There was a second PC in the office that was only supposed to operate as a communications server, so it had a screen but no keyboard. But people used to tinker with it, and they used to steal this guy's keyboard to do it, and rarely bothered to bring it back. One day he'd had enough, so he carefully drilled two holes through the keyboard and screwed it to his desk. He took great care to drill between the keys, so was quite taken aback when the keyboard didn't work afterwards.
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Horatio P Lemming, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 14:26,
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