Hard vs. Floppy disk education... (was: RE: Are office people...

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman_at_kih.net>
Date: Tue Aug 28 09:49:03 2001

Nor do most average people - these locals here go to flea markets and buy
"computers" and then when nothing works they call me and I have to tell
them that they got screwed.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jerome Fine
-> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 8:54 AM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: Re: Hard vs. Floppy disk education... (was: RE: Are office
-> people...
->
->
-> >Roger Merchberger wrote:
->
-> > It's not hard at all -- Where I used to work our secretary kept calling
-> > 3.5" floppies "hard disks" and wouldn't change her language at
-> my copious
-> > requests & sincere attempts at re-education...
->
-> Jerome Fine replies:
->
-> That is OK! My wife still refers to the terminals laying around
-> (VT100 and VT220)
-> as computers! I really don't think she understands the difference.
->
->
Received on Tue Aug 28 2001 - 09:49:03 BST