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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Computer shopI used to work as a technician in a local computer shop, i was responsible for everything that came in and everything that went out. many, many times i would see custoemrs come in spend around £7-800 quid on a spankly new computer for playing games. I would always offer them the option for me to built their system, especially when the person clearly knew nothing and would likely fuck it up.
note one guy who came in with his mates, bragging on about how good his new system would be, clearly insulted when i said, it'll cost £25 for me to put that together for you. he scoffed and said he could do it no sweat.
the next day he comes in with him tower. "this doesn't work, i want me money back" so i opened up his case to see that instead of using the little brass stand offs to seperate his motherboard from the metal case.. he had used... the FEET from the case!! two of them as well as one single brass stand off. his board was bent like a banana.. his face when i said he'd fucked his warranty for all his stuff was a right picture. needless to say, after forking out a futher £125 for a new board, I built his new system.
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Kingtoke was shit at life on, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 14:39,
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