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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More mouse funMy granddad is 92 but he's a fast learner. Within months of getting his new laptop, he had taken apart the hardware and wired in an X-Box. Then he hacked into the Pentagon and started an actual land invasion of North Korea, using his hand-held games console to control the tanks and infantry. Next, he used a self-written hack code to access the CIA mainframe at Langley and tracked down bin Laden via cookies.
But - and this is the funniest thing - he refers to the mouse as the "cursor mover"!!! What an antiquated old fart, eh?
(, Mon 25 Sep 2006, 9:39, Reply)
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