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 Nanna, bless her.She turned 80 years old the other week and for 'safety reasons' my family gave her an old Nokia 3210 phone so she could ring them if she ever fell down or whatever.
I went to see her a few days ago. She was trying to figure out how to use the phone, ended up on the phonebook and found something called "My home". She rang it. The house phone started ringing (surrpriise).
She went on to ask me how to hang up her mobile phone; I told her; she eventually managed to figure it out. The house phone stopped ringing but she picked it up regardless and then started complaining because 'whoever it was, hung up'.
"Alright Nanna."
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TonyUNDERSCORE from the Internet, Sat 23 Sep 2006, 16:02,
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