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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Quite a short oneWhen I was 15, my grandad (god rest his soul) bought a Pentium P75. Chuffed to bits, I bought a few of the big games at the time: Quake, Duke Nukem, Magic Carpet. That sort of stuff. I was a happy guy and my grandad bought the internet, he didn't do it to please his grandson, he did it because he wants to learn.
I showed him Theme Park, which became a christmas present for me. I was a happy little chappy. However, it wouldn't install. Cue my gran - who was in the room at the time.
"Oh well, if it work straight away, it wouldn't be fun!"
She worked on the very first Radar system in WWII. How the bejesus did we win the war?
(, Tue 26 Sep 2006, 11:27, Reply)
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