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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not a computer butAn audio-cassette player (yes my family is stuck in the dark ages).
I was sitting upstairs when I heard a very strange noise, like plastic hitting plastic and air escaping. Go downstairs to see my dad getting very angry with the tape player. It turns out the tape isn't playing. He presses the play button, it plays for like 5 seconds silently. He is really annoyed, as it "should change over by itself" and all that blah. I press rewind (for a bit), then play. the tape plays.
Dad had never thought that it was the end of the tape.
I'm always right in my house.
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 23:21, Reply)
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