On 2/13/22 10:00, Ogg wrote:

Good IT jokes are few and far between, especially when it comes
to cybersecurity. That's why we put on our creativity hats to
brainstorm joke after joke

Not really a joke, but still remember when I worked at the MCI technical
call center in Chandler, AZ... there was an Iomega side and a Compaq
support side (I worked on the Iomega side)... was walking over to lunch,
and a friend that worked on the Compaq side popped up, looked around for anyone to tell this to... he asked the customer to hold for a moment, he
had too much trouble to stop from laughing...

I didn't even understand the statement he made at first, "The c???er is broken" ... huh? ... "they said their cupholder was broken" ... of
course it was the CD-Rom drive that they had been using as a cup holder.
IIRC, this was around 1994 or so.

The worst call I got was someone trying to backup their files when the
power was out... I swear I spent 20m with they guy while he checked all
the cables for the Jazz drive were connected, etc... seriously didn't
think to tell me the power was out until I asked if he could pull the
computer out so he could check the connection clearly without the
flashlight. The SCSI card that came with some of the devices had the
same connector as a printer port, and people would often plug into the
wrong port, or not install the card, because they didn't know the
difference.
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Tracker1 wrote to Ogg <=-

I didn't even understand the statement he made at first, "The c???er is broken" ... huh? ... "they said their cupholder was broken" ... of
course it was the CD-Rom drive that they had been using as a cup
holder.
IIRC, this was around 1994 or so.

Back about that time I'd had someone who referred to a CRT monitor as "The CPU". She'd talk about taking the CPU out and moving it to another desk.

I'd be on the phone asking her to turn the PC off and on again, and I'd hear her turn the monitor off and on and wonder why the problems didn't go away.

Don't miss those days.


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Tracker1 wrote to Ogg <=-

Back about that time I'd had someone who referred to a CRT monitor as "The

CPU". She'd talk about taking the CPU out and moving it to another desk.

I'd be on the phone asking her to turn the PC off and on again, and I'd
hear
her turn the monitor off and on and wonder why the problems didn't go
away.

Don't miss those days.

I used to work with someone who called a motherboard a "cp board".

I worked with another guy who was insane... all he could do was fix power supplies. Anything else he touched he broke.

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