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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A few years back ..Old computer getting too slow. I purchase new motherboard, £100 CPU, CPU fan, more RAM, etc. Locate screwdriver. Assemble. Connect. Black screen. Take equipment back to store.
Receive the information that I had turned the CPU fan 180 degrees. Come to think of it, it did take some force to squeeze the bloody thing onto the CPU. Purchase new £100 CPU and let store geeks keep pitifully squashed £100 CPU.
On silent days, I think I can still hear them laugh in the background. Perhaps I shouldn't have told them that I'm a computer engineer.
(, Mon 25 Sep 2006, 8:40, Reply)
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