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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How To BackupI work in the puter business and this one was told to me by an old boss who had been working with computers for 30 years.
His favorite story was of a lady who was an accounting clerk back in the early 80's when a desk computer was a massive green monitor with a very clacky keyboard and a big thick network cable that ran back to a computer room the size of a football pitch.
Said lady's company had just gone technical and as such she had her typewritter replaced with a computer screen, the monitor had a floppy drive in it and the installing engineer told her that she must take a copy of this disk every night as a back up and then he left her to it.
Fast forward 2 years and suddenly theres a major problem with the computer and an engineer is called, he spends a couple of days trying to solve the problem and eventually is forced to go to the backup, so he asks the lady if she has been making backups and could he have them. she says that she has been doing so religously for the last 2 years and points in the direction of some filing cabinets against the far wall, he opens the cabinet to find several hundrend sheets of paper with photocopied pictures of the disk on them all daeted and signed.
it turns out in fact that she had ordered the filing cabinet for the purposes of filing these photocopies because her desk draw had got full with them. He never did tell me what happened to her, but maybe this is the reason some of us techies can be a bit patronising and pedantic.
Length ? well once filed it fills an entire filing cabinet !
(, Mon 25 Sep 2006, 12:57, Reply)
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