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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My Mum is oddEccentric, brilliant, witty, intelligent and no, I'm not in the least bit like her.
She is a little out of date when it comes to the technology, though.
She's very scared about her personal information being hacked from her computer having watched one too many scare-mongering documentaries on Nigerian scammers and 2nd hand PCs. Recently, she bought a laptop to replace her PC and my sister returned home to find her in the garden, smashing up the PC monitor with a hammer.
She has given us strict instructions that in the case of her untimely demise, our first task should be to get into her work and delete all of her computer files, then return to demolish the laptop. Presumably with a hammer. Who knows? It could provide a cathartic method of grief expulsion, I'll let you know if it ever happens.
I sometimes wonder if this sweet, unassuming woman has a secret life as an online dominatrix that she wants to hide from us but knowing her eccentricity as I do, I'm inclined to doubt it.
I also heard her smugly boasting to a friend that her daughter's work made her carry a Blueberry at all times.
(, Mon 25 Sep 2006, 11:30, Reply)
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