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 mother..sigh.For about three years she would keep closing windows because "the bar at the bottom was full."
And this one isn't computers, but at my birthday party last Sunday, I unwrapped a new camera. Along with it I got a memory card, one of those xD cards, which are about the size of a postage stamp, maybe 2 or 3 times as thick.
She gasped. "Is THAT the camera? Wow, it's so small!"
edit: Might I add that she's an intensive care nurse(a fantastic one at that). Complex life support machines that cost several hundred thousand dollars are no problem, but give her a television remote and she'll cry from frustration.
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trintrin has jam for blood, Sat 23 Sep 2006, 2:19,
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