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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Baby boomers have no respect for sensitive dataMe: Mum it looks like your computer is fucked and needs some new parts.
Mum: I still need the data off it.
Me: ok let's transfer it onto one of a variety of storage devices in the mean time.
Mum: No darling I would rather send my computer, which is full of higly sensitive information, off to a random fat middle aged computer repair guy.
No shit! she had like higly sensitive information about people on witness protection programs, tax file numbers, criminal records etc. If the government got wind of how many of their middle aged female workers were leaking info because of IT phobia, they would flip.
On the other hand good if you ever need to track someone down.
(, Wed 27 Sep 2006, 22:52, Reply)
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