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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People are so thick!I'm a doctor. The other day someone came into ER coughing up blood and in terrible pain. It was obviously a case of serious internal haemorrhaging.
ME: "Have you had any cardio-vascular difficulties or angioplasty recently?"
PATIENT: Urrrg, I don't ... arrrg, understand."
ME: "Look, I'm being quite clear. Have you had any anginal or aortal procedures?"
PATIENT: I'm ... arrrgg ... going .... to die!"
ME: Just tell me about any cardiac infarctions you may have had.
PATIENT: I ... don't ... urrrrrrrrrrrg."
And then he died. If only he had done just what I told him to do, it all could have been avoided. People are just so thick, aren't they?
(, Thu 28 Sep 2006, 10:12, Reply)
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