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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I feel depressedEvery time I read some story or other about an IT guy laughing at someone doing something stupid with a computer I just fail to see the funny side. It's because I have a deep seated inferiority complex and secretly believe that the IT-literate people (who are becoming more numerous by the day) are laughing at me behind my back because I don't know what Linux is.
On the other hand, when I told my granny to move the pointer using the mouse, and she picked up the mouse, placed it on the screen, and tried to drag the pointer along with it.. now even I could see *that* was funny. How I laughed as I wallowed just for a second in my own smugness and felt, just for a fleeting moment, something of what it must be like to understand something, anything, better than someone else.
(, Mon 25 Sep 2006, 11:27, Reply)
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