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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The Solar Eclipse in 1999Was working for an charitable education agency in the west country as a Tech Support to 60 or so Professors/Doctors (all semi or fully retired in their late 40's/50's) who were given laptops to perform their work on.
Many funny stories but the one that always makes me laugh is the support convestation that went as follows:
Prof: My laptop isn't working.
Me: [Run through basic diagnosis procedures]
Prof: [not listening to me] It hasn't been deviled by the eclipse has it? It was working earlier but since the Moon went over the sun its not been working.
It was very hard to complete the call after a comment like that. In the end the problem was due to the battery being empty, he'd plugged it into a wall socket but hadn't turned that on.
(, Tue 26 Sep 2006, 2:48, Reply)
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