From: chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: OS/2
Date: 15 Aug 92 02:57:42 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

In article <1992Aug14.103329.27420@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au> davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (David Meiklejohn) writes:
>In article <1992Aug13.200207.2549@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY) writes:
>>>In article <1992Aug11.132522.20628@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> benw@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (bennett.weber) writes:
>>>>
>>>>If you ask the average "JOE" what operating system his computer uses,
>>>>he'd probably answer "Wordperfect".
>>>
>>I guess I did give the average "JOE" or "JANE" more
>>than average, oh well, it reminds me of a story that I heard.
>
>One of the problems of this forum is that it's a little elite - we're pretty
>much all either computer/engineering professionals or are studying CS/EE.  So
>it doesn't suprise me that people here have no clue about "average" users, at
>home and in business.  Can't be helped, I guess.
>
>>It goes like this:  A lady in the lab wanted to transfer her data
>>from a 5 1/4" disk to a SPARC station which had a 3.5" floppy drive.
>>What she did was folded the 5 1/4" disk and stuffed the disk into
>>the drive.  Well that was the end of her data on the disk and possibly
>>the drive as well(don't know what happened to the drive if it was ok or not).
>
>We're well on the way to starting a folklore thread here...
>
>This story of your's reminds me of a classic software telephone support tale:
>
>Someone was having trouble getting some software, which came on several disks
>installed.  They explained that they followed the instructions in the manual -
>Insert Disk 1, press <Enter>, then Insert Disk 2, press <Enter>, and so on.
>They're problem was that, after disk 3, they couldn't fit any more in the
>drive!
>
>That one's probably apocryphal.  This one's true - happened to me two weeks
>ago.
>
>Some meat inspectors were sent a computer from head office - these guys had
>hardly even seen a computer before, let alone use it.  They were told to get
>it set up.  They had a go, but they couldn't get the printer working, so they
>got me out to look at it.  Seemed alright, except for one minor detail - they
>hadn't realised that they needed a cable between the computer and printer!
>What was it supposed to use, telepathy??
>
>Here's another one (from a couple of years back now):
>
>One of our office typists got an error when she went to save her work in
>WordPerfect - the hard disk was full, as I recall.  This was a BIG document,
>so she couldn't save to floppy.  I was about to shell out to DOS to delete
>some files, when she suggested that, since the document was still on the
>screen, couldn't we just plug it into a different "hard disk" (her terminology
>for the box the monitor sits on) and save it on that?
>
>And people wonder why I want to give up PC support...   :-)
>
>
>-- 
>
>David Meiklejohn                  | Internet : davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au
>Computer Systems Officer, QDPI    | Fax      : +61 70 92 3593
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How's this: One person just recently brought a modem for her computer, well
she hooked it up and it was ready to work.  The only thing she knew about
computers having modems is that they can now comminucate to the outside world.
So to activate she started speaking into the modem "Hello Computer...".
Pretty bad eh?