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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Which Aerial?Not one of mine directly, but recounted from a friend.
His father, just retired, had decided to take up the "internet" bug and become proficient enough to surf the web and send emails to his friends and family around the world.
Anyway, one day my friend gets a call from his dad, the conversation goes a little something like this:
Friend: Whats wrong?
Father: I've got a problem with my emails
Friend: What is it?
Father: Well, I'm trying to use outlook with my hotmail , and I think I might have cracked it, but I'm trying to send an email , and I just wanted to know which "aerial" I should use to transmit it with?
Friend: Aerial? eh?
Father: Well, its asking me which aerial to transmit the message over, you know, I'm not used to this sort of thing, what should I say?
it never asked me before:
Friend: (Disbelief) Err, right, I'm coming over
So the guy turns up and asks his father to reproduce the problem, His father starts up outlook express and selects "Create message"
at which point the message composer appears,
ready to compose a rich (html) e-mail
and lo and behold, there was a toolbar at the top with a font selector dropdown on it.
The first item on this list was the font "Arial".
(, Sat 23 Sep 2006, 1:42, Reply)
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