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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Ctrl, Alt, DeleteA while ago I had a boss who seriously damaged his shoulder (water skiing or something), resulting in him not being able / allowed to move his right arm for several months.
Now, the boss didn't realise that the ctrl and alt keys on either side of the keyboard are equivalent. Cue boss (everytime the screen saver kicked in) using his functional left hand to press ctrl and alt on the left side of the keyboard and prssing the delete key... with his nose!
No length comment this time...
Once I had worked out what the hell was happening, I did the right thing and pointed out that there was an easier way - one more happy customer.
(, Wed 27 Sep 2006, 1:25, Reply)
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