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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time for oldie revenge methinks...ok so maybe not oldie, but computers definitely lose points here.
so i'm at school, and im not the most computer literate, but y'know, i've got better things to be doing with my life than working out how computers work...
anywhom,
i need to use the scanner.
i follow the little instructions they ever so helpfully put on the side of said scanner.
doesnt work.
i fiddle around the toolbar, see if i can figure it out intuitively.
nope.
ho hum... IT techy ahoy!
he's playing need for speed underground, so i assume he's quite busy, and wait for a minute or so.
*cough*
'yea i cant work out how to use the scanner, could you help please?'
cue IT techy doing EXACTLY what i did, try to figure it out using the toolbar.
'sorry mate, i dont really know what to suggest'
i am SO glad, that at a grammar school,
where so much emphasis is placed on IT,
sometimes to the extent that you're not allowed to hand-write essays,
the IT technicians do less of a job than i do.
and they get paid.
sigh...
the end.
(, Mon 25 Sep 2006, 14:30, Reply)
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