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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Apple A + D + SSince people are dobbing themselves in, I'll do one... the "oldies" part of the question seems to have been abandoned several pages ago...
On a Windows machine, Ctrl D in Word is a harmless Character function which allows you to change font, size etc. On a Mac, or at least, on the mid-90s model I was using, Ctrl D is Delete. (On the Mac, of course, it was the Apple key rather than Ctrl, but it's the same diff.) However, Ctrl A is still Select All and Ctrl S is still save. Can you see what's coming?
Having slaved over a page of utter crap all day - advertising guff for luxury products for bridezillas who will probably be divorced in two weeks - I tiredly put my thumb on the Apple key and somehow managed to put my finger across A, D & S. In that order. Considering that they appear on the keyboard as ASD, I still don't know how I did it. But I ended up with a nicely saved blank page.
I guess I should be grateful that it was advertising crap and not the Great Australian Novel, and also that I no longer write advertising crap for a living.
(, Wed 27 Sep 2006, 4:56, Reply)
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