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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oh THAT desktopTrying to talk an elderly woman through the impossibly complicated process of downloading an excel file for her ECDL course. To save the hassle of getting her to look for files on her hard drive, I'd asked her to download it to her desktop for easy access.
After 20 minutes of to-ing and fro-ing we finally manage to get the download complete, so I ask her the perfectly reasonable question 'What's on your desktop now?'
'Well, a cup of tea and a muffin - but I can't see what that's got to do with anything'
(, Tue 26 Sep 2006, 16:52, Reply)
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