Thread: Old Tech Support -

I just came across this old tech support story. Totally
obsolete, but too good to just let it die.
Keep in mind that this is from a very long time ago,
when Windows came on a stack of floppy disks and when
a Mac's standard way of dealing with a PC floppy was to
destroy all data on it and format it.


An unfailingly polite lady called to ask for help with a
Windows installation that had gone terribly wrong.

Customer: "I brought my Windows disks from work to
install them on my home computer."

Training stresses that we are "not the Software Police,"
so I let the little act of piracy slide.

Tech Support: "Umm-hmm. What happened?"

Customer: "As I put each disk in it turns out they weren't
initialized."

Tech Support: "Do you remember the message exactly,
ma'am?"

Customer: (proudly) "I wrote it down. 'This is not a
Macintosh disk. Would you like to initialize it?'"

Tech Support: "Er, what happened next?"

Customer: "After they were initialized, all the disks
appeared to be blank. And now I brought them back to work,
and I can't read them in the A: drive; the PC wants to
format them. And this is our only set of Windows disks
for the whole office. Did I do something wrong?"

Lol, and I know a few who would have done the same, including an operations manager who built a glass office around the first pc in the office and while he didn't know how to turn it on, he kept the keys to the office and PC (remember that?) and a log too.

Good one Kate

Originally Posted by bill2006

Lol, and I know a few who would have done the same, including an operations manager who built a glass office around the first pc in the office and while he didn't know how to turn it on, he kept the keys to the office and PC (remember that?) and a log too.

No Bill I dont remember that...tell me more.

Originally Posted by kassi59

No Bill I dont remember that...tell me more.

Lol, I must be old. Before passwords, PC's came with a security lock, without a real key, there was no way you could turn them on.

Oh, Ok.Ive only been learning the computer for a little over five years. and of course there is soooooo much more!...