Bought Mrs SJ a Laptop

[Sharky]

At the other and of the life cycle, my grandson was overhead saying to his Dad - "What's a map?" (referring to the strange paper thing unfolding in front of him.

 

[ufkacbln]

OT

My first "real computer" was an Amstrad PCW, and I upgreded it t a stunning 1 MB of memory and a 330 Hz chip!

It saw me through my professional exams where I was the only geek Smart Arse person on the course using a word processor on the course

I have fond memories of spending an entire day drawing a Radiopharmacy design that would have taken 15 minutes on a mdern computer and less than 30 mins to have drawn by hand

I also used to write articles for the two PCW magazines

My piece de resistance was how to use a mono 9 dot matrix printer to print colour images by editing the images and using printer cartridges cleaned and reloaded with colour ink

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I used to do a bit of PC tech support at a University residential college, where I lived a while ago. Sometimes the support requests surprised me:

• I got a call from someone who said there was paper stuck in one of the shared printers. When I investigated, the printer (a laser printer with simple A4 stacked-paper trays) had tractor-feed paper (aka fan-fold paper, etc.) in one of the paper trays. Naturally, the printer was going to have problems retrieving individual A4 sheets from that!
• Someone else had trouble with a network card, and on checking, I found that he was trying to insert an RJ-45 cable into the BNC socket on the edge of the card. I guess he must have failed the basic "square block in square hole" kind of test in pre-school.

 

[mybike]

I used to do a bit of PC tech support at a University residential college, where I lived a while ago. Sometimes the support requests surprised me:

• I got a call from someone who said there was paper stuck in one of the shared printers. When I investigated, the printer (a laser printer with simple A4 stacked-paper trays) had tractor-feed paper (aka fan-fold paper, etc.) in one of the paper trays. Naturally, the printer was going to have problems retrieving individual A4 sheets from that!
• Someone else had trouble with a network card, and on checking, I found that he was trying to insert an RJ-45 cable into the BNC socket on the edge of the card. I guess he must have failed the basic "square block in square hole" kind of test in pre-school.

Have you noticed how well USB plugs fit in RJ45 sockets?

 

[martint235]

Have you noticed how well USB plugs fit in RJ45 sockets?

Only Type B which you don't see much anymore thanks to printers going wireless

 

[mybike]

Only Type B which you don't see much anymore thanks to printers going wireless

Actually I meant the type A, try it.

 

[martint235]

Actually I meant the type A, try it.

How do you get a type A into an RJ45 socket?

 

[mybike]

How do you get a type A into an RJ45 socket?

Sorry, it's a bit blurry, but it used to drive me up the wall on this netbook.

 

[Fnaar]

I once plugged what I thought was the charger for my portable cd-player (remember them?) into the machine... It must have been for something else (to this day, I don't know what) but 5 mins later there was smoke coming out of the cd player, and small flames finding their way out of the plastic lid.

 

[subaqua]

Sorry, it's a bit blurry, but it used to drive me up the wall on this netbook.

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all over CC land , there are people finding a USB A to pop into the RJ45 . and yes it does go in ! wont go into the modem socket though

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Sorry, it's a bit blurry, but it used to drive me up the wall on this netbook.

Does it have to be blurry to work?