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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Oldies are the bestIm my opinion oldies are not the worst people in the wold with computers, its the middle aged ones you have to look out for.
I do part time computer work for people in my area, and most of the oldies are not that bad. They generally have a list of things they want to ask, know mostly what they're talking about and actually listen when you explain things. A middle aged person paid me £15 an hour to organise her pictures, email several of them as attachements to a friend, and set up an email account for her, amongst other things. She explained what she wanted in a slightly muddled up way and kept forgetting what she wanted me to do.
In my opinion, oldies are the best to work with - if theyre not senile that is - then you have BIG trouble :)
(, Wed 27 Sep 2006, 21:14, Reply)
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