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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working on the IT support linefor car dealers, who after a career of selling cars via paperwork only, now had to use a computer system (i worked for a charity that provided cars for disabled people)
come across every possible IT misconception and misunderstanding (many of them similar to urban myths). My fave being the dealer who couldnt get his computer online, and after going through the usual checking leads were plugged in, modem lights on etc etc etc it was worked out he was on a dial up, and using the phone to ring the helpline cut of his net.
ho hum.
(, Mon 25 Sep 2006, 12:41, Reply)
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