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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Being the resident geek in our houseI get called on to deal with any problems anyone, usually my mum, is having with their computer. The first time she used Word and typed the words "Dear whoever", Mr Clippy appeared on the screen as he does.
"Maladicta!"
"What is it?"
"There's a pervy-looking paperclip on the screen! Is it one of those viruses and how do I make it go away? It's leering at me!"
She also thought for a time that if you type www.bbc.co.uk into the To field of an email, it would email the BBC. Bless.
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Maladicta, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:51,
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