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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Self destructionBack when I was 15 a friend bought a PC and this was back in the daze when DOS loaded up first.
After faffing about on it for a while, I typed in "self destruct", and up came the expected error message. "Damn, it works on the Mac" quoth I.
"Does it?" says my mate earnestly, with a shocked look on his face.
The guy now works in IT. He probably got his degree doing what he did in college: nicking his code from other people.
(, Wed 27 Sep 2006, 16:51, Reply)
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