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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WOOFIRST! But not, actually. verdammt.My dad does not have an affinity for computers, or indeed many electrical devices.
We were in a university talk on fees and being an engineering course everyone is quite geeky which extends to parents. So the guy at the front says something that sends everybody for their calculators.
Theres tapping, and then theres a noise unlike any other. A swish-clack, swish-clack noise.
My dad had pulled a slide rule from his pocket.
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 14:16, Reply)
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