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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I am an oldieand a dumb shit. At the time I worked for a large very well known uni. I could never log in. Machine would tell me I had an invalid log on or I didn't exist or some crap like that. The weird thing was if someone else typed my name in, Machine accepted it. When I called the help desk, they couldn't figure out what was wrong. (I was convinced Machine knew it was me and just hated me.)
This went on for a YEAR. Finally , in frustration the IT guy came to my desk to see what I was doing....
No one ever told me the space bar counts as a letter. I would hit the space bar to arrive at the login box, so I was typing "(BIG SPACE)twat-man" instead of "twat-man". Oh, how they laughed.
Currently, I'm in week 5 of the term and still can't sign on to the uni's computer. Help.
(, Tue 26 Sep 2006, 11:00, Reply)
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