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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Parents, eh?Was having a problem where the mouse cursor wouldn't move left or right, it would only go directly up or down. Father notices I'm having frustrations and checking the mouse ball, so asks what's up.
"The cursor won't move left or right, look, it only goes up and down."
His hand reaches out and twitches nervously above mine, so I let him take a look. He proceeds to rotate the mouse ninety degrees and pushes it sideways...
And I apologise for being pedantic, but no matter how many times my brothers and I use the word 'uninstall', he still says 'deinstall'.
Psh. Now where's that post message button?
(, Sat 23 Sep 2006, 12:21, Reply)
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