Oldies vs Computers
As 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...
( , Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
As 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...
( , Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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Dad vs PC
last month my dad went out to get himself a PC to see what all the fuss was about. So he took his new PC home, tried inserting a CD and got himself arrested - turns out the silly old sod had only got a Police Constable instead of a Personal Computer. Oh how we laaaaaaaugghed...
( , Mon 25 Sep 2006, 10:14, Reply)
last month my dad went out to get himself a PC to see what all the fuss was about. So he took his new PC home, tried inserting a CD and got himself arrested - turns out the silly old sod had only got a Police Constable instead of a Personal Computer. Oh how we laaaaaaaugghed...
( , Mon 25 Sep 2006, 10:14, Reply)
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