Geek Jokes

[PoleDriver]

[MartG]

PoleDriver said:

hint - check 2017 eclipse date

[PoleDriver]

MartG said:

PoleDriver said:

hint - check 2017 eclipse date

Although that is a bit obscure!

[Morningside]

[MartG]

Oh yes, the past can be very funny from our perspective today ....

[Morningside]

MartG said:

Oh yes, the past can be very funny from our perspective today ....

I still have my Casio telememo watch from the mid 1980's. Useless storing things on it now as telephone numbers are longer.

[Caruso]

MartG said:

Oh yes, the past can be very funny from our perspective today ....

It can also surprise us. Casio had a gesture controlled touch screen calculator watch in 1984!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piFaJmYpQfQ

[MartG]

[MartG]

[MartG]

[Bullett]

Amusing if true but I'm calling fake on that one, that PSU is way too clean for anything that has been used.

[Actual]

Bullett said:

Amusing if true but I'm calling fake on that one, that PSU is way too clean for anything that has been used.

The owner of the company where I was working came to my desk asking for help to get an important slideshow file off a USB key but what he handed me was a wireless mouse dongle.

[Veeayt]

[Morningside]

Veeayt said:

I laughed far too much at that. If only they would go back to their quirky designs (although maybe not this far!)

[MartG]

[Nimby]

Actual said:

Bullett said:

Amusing if true but I'm calling fake on that one, that PSU is way too clean for anything that has been used.

The owner of the company where I was working came to my desk asking for help to get an important slideshow file off a USB key but what he handed me was a wireless mouse dongle.

Late 90's - I was sent some 50 miles to investigate a laptop giving the well-known "missing NTLDR" message at boot. Level 1 were adamant there wasn't a (non-DOS) diskette in the drive, the usual cause of that message. "There was, but I heard her eject it, still the same problem". So it looked like a hard disk issue.

But when I got there and looked, there WAS a diskette in the drive. I ejected that and Windows'95 booted fine. What she'd ejected was her PCMCIA modem.

[Morningside]

Nimby said:

Actual said:

Bullett said:

Amusing if true but I'm calling fake on that one, that PSU is way too clean for anything that has been used.

The owner of the company where I was working came to my desk asking for help to get an important slideshow file off a USB key but what he handed me was a wireless mouse dongle.

Late 90's - I was sent some 50 miles to investigate a laptop giving the well-known "missing NTLDR" message at boot. Level 1 were adamant there wasn't a (non-DOS) diskette in the drive, the usual cause of that message. "There was, but I heard her eject it, still the same problem". So it looked like a hard disk issue.

But when I got there and looked, there WAS a diskette in the drive. I ejected that and Windows'95 booted fine. What she'd ejected was her PCMCIA modem.

Old tale time.

1989 (ish) I was asked to move the VT-100 terminal from the sales dept to the purchasing dept. Now being a serial cable I knew that routing would be a right pain so I drove up from London to Birmingham to move the terminal knowing that purchasing was over in the other building.

When I got there I found that the two "departments" were actually located on the other side of the desk!

I turned the monitor round, moved the keyboard and went back to the office.

[MartG]

[Veeayt]

But their sum will be even, so no prime in the bill

[MartG]