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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And another oneDespite being a multinational company we seem to have a fabulous record of employing salesmen who could politely be called 'technologically retarded'. One of my favourite pastimes is when I give out new laptops with fingerprint readers. Some I tell them are fingerprint scanners, while others I inform are retinal scanners. Watching them discuss and demonstrate their new kit during sales launches is a joy in itself...
(, Tue 26 Sep 2006, 21:19, Reply)
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