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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Short, but crap.I am not sure if he was old, but I worked on support for a company that made and sold software to risk analysts - the theory being the senior staff in a large company have all the secretarial work done centrally, so they can sack all the secretaries employed locally, and close the branch offices.
This particular firm had taken delivery of a laptop to each of their senior guys, who were not all that happy about having to work from home, and some of whom clearly had never used a computer before.
One particular analyst was really struggling starting the application up, a talked him through moving the pointer to the icon, but each time he double-clicked, the pointer had moved. This happened about 10 times, and I was thinkthat that it was a hardware problem until I asked how he was holding the mouse.
It turns out, he was holding it in the palm of his hand, and using the mouse ball with his thumb. Each time he wet to double-click, he turned the move over, therby dislodging the ball.
I like to think he was gently cupping the mouse like a perfectly rounded breast, but I suspect that it was more like holding a dead pigeon that the cat has brought in.
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 14:50, Reply)
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