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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my grandmahad just climbed into my dad's new car. as he drove to the end of her road, grandma was most surprised when the sat nav system suddenly butted into the conversation and said officiously:
"please. turn. right. in. one. hundred. yards."
"how does SHE know?" grandma said angrily. "she's never been to halifax."
there was a pause. then my mother said gently, "er - mum - who do you think said that?"
when it was explained to my grandma that there were satellites in the sky navigating us, she simply would not believe it. the look on her face was priceless - it was one of pity and not a little scorn that we were all so gullible...
btw, i don't think anyone should moan about the choice of qotw when it's not their website....
just saying, is all!
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 27 Sep 2006, 13:09,
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