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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hospital computerHospital ward computers often aren't computers at all, they're just monitors and keyboards attached to something somewhere somehow.(what I think the technological fraternity may refer to as 'dumb terminals'? Or was that, like, about 5000 years ago?)
As most people know, nurses cannot exist without tea and coffee, and due to clumsines/tiredness/rushing about it often gets spilt, often onto the keyboards. A pain.
What you might not know is that bedside oxygen supplies and those suction tubes that you use to suck up people's dribble are spot on for cleaning all the coffee out of the gaps.
(and then we turned it upside down to dry out on the radiator *ahem*)
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:50, Reply)
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