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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Really should be cleverererer than this...Ex-colleague of mine who shall remain nameless, lets call him Baber, no, no, er, Mr Shah, was a consultant/programmer for an IT firm in London.
Whilst trying out his new PC he asks borrow one of my blank CDRS and waving it around asks "what side do I write on?"
"The side thats a bluey colour" of course...
...30 minutes past and he bring the CDR back to me claiming it doesnt work, on closer inspection he'd "written" 'Babers disk' on the side meant for data and had been trying to burn to the CD label side. The rule? Don't ask someone a question where the verb is ambiguous ;)
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