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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College employeesmany years ago I worked at the local college. Many people really couldn't grasp the whole IT thing, I was sent to remove many things from floppy drives, may favourite being someones visa card (where they trying to buy online, I don't know).
My favourite stort was told to me by an ex council Techie. The story go's that a councillors secretary rings up and tells him that she has spilt coffee into a keyboard. "Has it got sugar in it?" - "No she replies", "Ok then quickly swill it under cold water and let it dry out for a day or so - it should be OK". Two hours later a rather irate councillor rings up and says "which twat told my secretary to swill my latop in the sink?"
(, Mon 25 Sep 2006, 13:47, Reply)
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