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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Can't ... hold .... back ... sarcasm any longer!I was visiting an elderly uncle who has recently bought a PC. He was having trouble operating it so I demonstrated it for him.
First I turned it on using the mains switch in the wall. Then I pressed the 'on' button on the machine and the 'on'button on the screen. In no time it had sparked into life and we were ready to start.
I clicked on 'start' and chose to connect to the internet. The provider was Virgin, so I had to click again in order to log on to the Net. After a few moments we were connected and I asked my uncle what he'd like to search for ...
But he had lapsed into a coma of absolute and incurable boredom, never to return to the land of the sapient.
I'll be joining him there shortly ...
(, Wed 27 Sep 2006, 16:26, Reply)
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