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As 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...

(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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More supidity from the guy who believed that typing in "self destruct" blows up an Apple Mac
Using his new PC, and despite him using computers for years, he was under the impression that you could turn a BAT file into a fully working EXE by changing the file extension.
(, Wed 27 Sep 2006, 19:02, Reply)

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