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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ROM or RW?One of the profs. in my department wanted to back up some of his data to CD, and was told that he could find a PC set aside for this purpose in one of the offices. After returning from attempting his backup, he put his newly-burned CD into his own PC but found it unreadable.
Him: This CD doesn't work! The computer in $OFFICE must be broken.
Me: It's possible that the burn process failed - that sometimes happens.
Him: Well, I did take it out half way through - could that have done it?
Me: Yes. That means that the CD is corrupted and you'll have to get a new one and try again.
He went to ask the IT staff for help this time, and returned later.
Him: I discovered that there were two CD drives on that PC, and only one of them can make backups. I put my CD in the wrong one.
Me: Ah, in that case nothing will have been burned to the CD you used before, and you can in fact re-use it.
Him: What?! You said before that it was ruined! You should get your facts straight!
(, Wed 27 Sep 2006, 14:47, Reply)
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