Are office people really that, umm shall we say...slow?

From: Chad Fernandez <fernande_at_internet1.net>
Date: Sun Aug 26 13:58:53 2001

Well, yes, I understand having labels from the factory, but thats not
what I am talking about. For instance, theis video card I bought has a
monitor symbol on it already, but someone wrote "monitor" on it in
marker. Why do users label stuff like that? How about the floppy
drives I mentioned earlier? The 3.5" floppy was labeled "Hard disk A",
and the 5.25" floppy was labeled, "Floppy drive b:". That was obviuosly
done by a user, as if they were going to forget which drive was for what
kind of disk to insert.

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA

Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> ... and for those without PC experience. We had a newbie in one of the
> college labs who was trying to install a second printer on some of the
> OLD (8088, 80286) machines. But the "other" DB25 connector on the back of
> the machines was MALE, ... So she connected them with gender changers.
> [for non-PC people: IBM used FEMALE DB25 for parallel printer, and MALE
> DB25 for serial]
>
> Back a long time ago, one of our instructors damaged the input circuitry
> of of several giant classroom CGA compatible monitors by plugging them
> into the Microsoft Bus [green-eyed] Mouse ports
>
> > The colour coding will be essential when the PC world finally wakes up and
> > uses fibre optics for everything...
>
> Is the color coding standardized? Or will we have incorrect connections
> made by people who follow the color code instead of other cues?
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Sun Aug 26 2001 - 13:58:53 BST