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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Dinky dinno's do the dirrrrty....When i was wee'er lassie at work i used to own a collection of rubber dinosaurs and every morning the dinosaurs had switched into very interesting positions. Anyway we had these old inhouse computers with the massive keyboards. On my co-workers keyboard (her touch typing skills weren't upto much) I used to insert the tail of the t-rex into the keyboard yank out some of the keys and switched them round. How i laughed when she thought the computer was broken. ANyway the boss walked in after an AGM with all the other bosses - i panicked. It all came out in the end and i had to sit there dinosaur in hand re-arranging all the keys whilst the bosses just stood there and glared. I was on fire with embarrassment.
(, Mon 25 Sep 2006, 11:34, Reply)
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