Recovering Help Desk Tech

SteveDallas · 09-17-2003, 09:18 PM

Well I've had people tell me this was an urban legend, but no shit, I had a guy fold a 5.25" floppy to fit it in a 3.5" drive once. It was when I was in college, and I worked as a computer lab monitor. (I'm still in the computer support racket... 11+ years of IT in higher ed. Scary.) We would have people come in all the time back around 1989 or so, when the transition to 3.5" disks was happening for DOS computers, and they would have this document they needed to edit/print and they wouldn't know if they did it on a mac or a PC. Now you young'uns might find this somewhat understandable if you're comparing MacOS 9 or 10 and Windows 2000 or XP. But in these days, a Mac was a little box with a 9" black & blue screen wih pictures on it and a mouse, and a PC had green text (no graphics, well at least not if you were using WordPerfect), a "C>" prompt, and no mouse. They didn't seem to be easily confused with each other to me.

09-17-2003, 09:18 PM	#2
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Well I've had people tell me this was an urban legend, but no shit, I had a guy fold a 5.25" floppy to fit it in a 3.5" drive once. It was when I was in college, and I worked as a computer lab monitor. (I'm still in the computer support racket... 11+ years of IT in higher ed. Scary.) We would have people come in all the time back around 1989 or so, when the transition to 3.5" disks was happening for DOS computers, and they would have this document they needed to edit/print and they wouldn't know if they did it on a mac or a PC. Now you young'uns might find this somewhat understandable if you're comparing MacOS 9 or 10 and Windows 2000 or XP. But in these days, a Mac was a little box with a 9" black & blue screen wih pictures on it and a mouse, and a PC had green text (no graphics, well at least not if you were using WordPerfect), a "C>" prompt, and no mouse. They didn't seem to be easily confused with each other to me.

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