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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A sticky endMy mum was having problems with her PC, so I went round to sort it out for her. The problem was immediately obvious: she had been pushing slices of jammy toast into the floppy disk slot for months, filling the machine with bread. I told her that this was bad and she promised to stop it.
The following week, she was opening the CD drawer and placing a freshly fried egg inside. Old people, eh?!
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 16:52, Reply)
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