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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My mother, god bless herI left home and there were *5* computers in the house. 6 months later and they were all gone... one shorted because she put it in the side room that had a leaky roof... the rest... I have *no* idea. Maybe she's eating them or something.
I had this great broadband-cable deal with Homechoice at the time, and no other company did on demand tv - the idea of being able to watch episodes of Spaced on demand was still very very new. Which meant every time she wanted the tv her question was "can you put on the REAL telly please?" and take the remote and switch it to analogue tv, despite the standard channels being available on the set top box by pressing "1", "2" and so on. I came back one weekend to find a giant dent in the METAL remote where she'd got annoyed with it and thrown the remote across the room.
Even digital displays on microwaves seem to worry her: ever since she split from my father she has insisted on using microwaves with a manual dial on them.
This would be endearing in a little old lady... but she's 42.
(, Sat 23 Sep 2006, 3:44, Reply)
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