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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Parents - Don't you love 'emQuite a few years ago, I decided to build myself a new PC and so I gave my father my old one, complete with printer. I made sure to show him how to use MS Word and sort out the printer and I set up some shortcuts with useful names. All in all, I spent a good few hours with him, patiently answering his questions, providing basic notes, showing him this and that.
When I came back the following week, he had gone out and bought himself several hundred pounds worth of electric typewriter and was using the PC as a doorstop.
However, now, a few years down the line, he has finally got hooked up to the internet (read: I hooked him up to the internet) on his new computer.
Like a lot of people, I work. Father however has retired. He send emails to my home account in the morning at some ungodly hour saying “Have you got this email?” When I don’t respond within a ‘reasonable period’, he sends another one. Sometimes I get a phonecall too about mid morning from him, asking me if I have received his emails (all twelve of them) and why I haven’t responded to him yet. His emails literally say nothing but “Did you get this email?” There is nothing of any substance in them at all. Infuriating.
Recently, I have taken to hitting the Reply button and saying “No, sorry, didn’t get your email (below).”
(, Tue 26 Sep 2006, 8:36, Reply)
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