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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I've got the fish again!My mother is the world's biggest technophobe. At the present moment I'd say she's probably reached the peak of her potential computer expertise, crouching over our cruddy family computer, typing with one finger and looking petrified as if the thing's going to blow up at any moment. This amazing proficiency was the result of an evening class at the local adult college, "Windows for Dummies" or something like that. Holed up in a computer lab with several other geriatric technophobes, it must have been hell. Anyway, halfway through the first lesson there was a shriek from behind her computer.
There's a fish on my screen! How do I get rid of the fish? ARRRRGGHH!
It was the screensaver. Although the teacher patiently explained on several occasions that all one had to do was to move the mouse or something, my mother could never seem to remember this and constantly had to call him over because she'd "got the fish again" and had to ask how to "get rid of the fish".
She's known as "The Fish Lady".
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:25, Reply)
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