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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Something fishy's going on...A couple of years ago, my gran got a PC. She'd never used one before, so I'd set it up how she wanted it (What colour background would you like? do you want it to make a noise when it loads up? Which screensaver do you want? etc) and written instructions on how to turn it on, how to send an email, how to load up Solitaire, etc.
That night, I got a phone call from her, and she sounded quite flustered.
"the_n00b, It's your grandma. I think some hackers are on my computer!" A bit strange, I thought, seeing as she was getting a modem the week after.
"What exactly is it doing, Gran?" "Well, it's just got pictures of fish and whales and things from that nice program with David Attenborough" "Remember when you said you wanted the Blue Planet screensaver? Just wiggle the mouse a bit."
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 20:13, Reply)
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