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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When we were switching from NT to XP......we had a couple of test machines set up with XP.
(Our changeover was a bit tricky because we use Oracle tools on our desktops.)
I saw my boss - who has worked in IT for 25 years - standing next to them looking puzzled so I asked him if there was a problem.
He told me he was trying to switch on one of the machines, but it didn't work.
I checked the mains socket. All working.
I checked the cables at the back. All present and correct.
I checked that the monitor was connected and on. All fine.
I asked him to try again to switch it on.
At this point I discovered what the problem was.
He was pushing the floppy eject button.
*He asked me not to tell anybody. I told him he must be fucking joking!
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finnbar has officially retired, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 22:57,
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