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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Pot. Kettle .BlackThe IT department laughed heartily at my incompetence when I called them to say that there was a warning box on my screen announcing a lack of virtual memory.
Next day I was proof-reading their new training manual because they don't know how to spell, use punctuation or write a grammatical sentence. I laughed heartily.
(, Wed 27 Sep 2006, 13:43, Reply)
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