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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Issues with my parents and technologyI live in Bristol, about 35 miles from where my parents live, I've done numerous 70 mile round trips to fix such major problems as:
1. Deleting pictures of last years holidays off their digital camera
2. Deleting icons off the front screen
3. Installing a new wallpaper (took ages that one ! *sigh*)
4. Informing my Dad the shiny side needs to be down for the pc to read the CD
Perhaps though, the best thing they did was go on a 2 week holiday to Cyprus and take the instruction manuals for their mobiles so they could learn to text me ! :)
However I'm no geek, I bought a new network card and daren't fix it myself incase I fuck it up :(
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 19:19, Reply)
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